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...million details which range from the imposition of a broad fiscal policy down to reducing the number of milk deliveries; it calls for action in any sudden civilian crisis (such as the Eastern fuel shortage), involves umpiring any major dispute between warring Government agencies. It touches U.S. economic life at its periphery and at its core, in a year when that life is rolling along at the fastest clip in history...
...parties of the Punjab's 28 millions-56% Moslems, 27% Hindu, 13% warrior Sikhs-into a coalition Government which brought internal peace to the Province and has raised 500,-ooo troops to fight the Axis. Last week, at Lahore, the fruitful work of Sir Sikander was ended: a sudden heart attack brought death to Britain's stanchest friend in India...
...personality in its first corporate year. It leaned heavily on war and children's programs, built up a first-rate staff of newscasters and commentators from Raymond Gram Swing to Walter Winchell. Unable to compete with its rivals in top-flight shows, the Blue swelled with sudden dignity last month when Serge Koussevitzky (studio nickname: Blue Serge) and his Boston Symphony began the first of 46 broadcasts...
...same month that saw Hitler's Low Countries Blitz and the obliteration of the French Republic, the Supreme Court held by an eight-to-one vote that a student whose religious scruples prohibited his saluting the flag could be dismissed from the public schools. That decision was a sudden shift from an outstanding ten-year record of liberality in civil-liberties cases. Then, a year later, three members of the majority recanted publicly, stating that they had been in error in the original decision. Justices Black, Douglas, and Murphy did not, however, reveal their reasons for voting with the majority...
...Federal agency has to hire a big staff in haste, D. & B. rechecks on its appointees at leisure. It checks up on the character as well as the financial status of war contractors for Government agencies handing out contracts, checks on new employes for a contractor faced with a sudden increase in his staff...