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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1947
Page
8
A community plan urges higher production and less church attendance while promoting smaller homes. It calls for personal frugality and local self sufficiency, arguing that economic growth should prioritize efficiency and modest living.
A Twentieth Century Fund study outlines life in 1960 with more leisure, higher pay, and job certainty but ongoing taxes. It foresees suburban migration, aging population, and rapid transport growth while predicting more air travel, continued urbanization, and expanded household tech.
Fortune magazine notes in its May issue that new plane types promise 12 to 50 percent cuts in ten mile flying costs, potentially allowing profit with smaller loads. Airlines lost money on expanded DC 3 and DC 4 capacity while delays in new equipment hindered capacity growth.
The industry faces revenue losses from flight cancellations and relies on wartime air navigation aids to improve safety and weather handling. Congress may fund equipment, but airlines resist adding navigator wages and radar weight. Combined ground operations offer the main savings, as 60 cents of every dollar goes to ground costs. Airport chaos in 1946 pushed airlines to cede some ground sovereignty to enable consolidation.
Dr William Brady argues alcohol is a narcotic that dulls fear and pain, not a stimulant. He cautions parents, urges abstinence, and critiques school football culture as harmful to growing youths, connecting self esteem deficits to drinking.
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