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...whom are essaying the thankless task of stretching sixty-five dollars over thirty days. The type of consumer, in other words, who is particularly hard hit by rising prices. In the case of the student-veterans, most of their savings are represented by war bonds, whose real value would vanish in any long term inflation. A successfully conducted buyers' strike in Harvard Square would give heart to the millions of other consumers of the country who stand helplessly by while the manufacturers contemplate what the traffic will bear. By limiting purchases to the necessities of life, by refusing...
Joseph Rogon, 61, was different from the fuddled old drifters who vanish nightly into the cold stone wildernesses of Chicago. He paid his rent, had a wife, three sons, and a button for 35 years' faithful service to the International Harvester Co. A Polish immigrant, he spoke little English. But he had never gotten lost before...
...World War III will have no privacy. Airborne television tubes will watch cities dissolve, flashing the action on generals' screens in deeply buried dugouts. Even bombs and rockets as they fall will watch and report their dive to the target with unblinking electronic eyes, until they and it vanish simultaneously...
...world learned to look to Latin American cities for some manufactured exports. On ancient, hand-me-down Manchester equipment, Brazil's textile mills make some $60,000,000 worth of textiles annually for South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, the Belgian Congo, Australia. Even though war-made markets may vanish, the fact is that today Brazil's manufactures are gaining on her agricultural products in export value. Brazil is one of the world's largest exporting nations...
Dead-Man Formation. How could five planes vanish without one of them getting off an intelligible radio signal? Had one driven the rest of a wing-to-wing, "deadman formation" into a mass collision...