U.S. Strives for Full Employment Without Price Controls
Sylvia Porter reviews Adolf Sturmthal’s analysis from IBM Think on Europe’s wage and price controls. He argues direct wage price and profit controls fail, and outlines policies to ease a tight labor market: draw more workers into the labor force, lengthen hours, boost training, redesign production, and forecast bottlenecks, aiming to slow inflation while reducing unemployment.
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U. S
Europe
University of Illinois
Adolf Sturmthal
IBM
Sturmthal
The
Hall Syndicate. Inc
Willing Water Week Proclaimed By Gov Wallace
Gov George Wallace signs proclamation declaring August 14 to 20 as Public Water Supply Week in Alabama. The observance aims to raise public awareness of the water supply industry and its role in health, comfort, and living standards.
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Gov
Wallace
George Wallace
Alabama
Heloise tips for travel and kitchen hacks
Dear Heloise column readers share practical hacks. A truck driver praises a sock and shoe string bottle holder to stop vacuum bottles from breaking and notes it doubles as a conversation piece. Other tips include repurposing small plastic pots, plastic tomato cartons as planter boxes, and leak proofing tomato cartons with aluminum foil for over sink window boxes.
Suggestion to Use NY Lon Net for Cookie Crumbs
June Good proposes an alternative use for the ny lon net by making a pad to scoop crumbs from a cookie sheet before baking another batch. The note notes its effectiveness and personal satisfaction with the result.
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Heloise
Carpet under sewing machine quiets noisy jitters
Dear Heloise shares a simple fix to stabilize a portable sewing machine. Placing the machine on a small piece of carpet reduces movement and noise, allowing faster sewing. Crocks? No. This tip preserves steadiness during operation.
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Heloise
New & Odd Games In Stock At hgh Book Shop
New and unusual games for all ages including Chess Checkers Bughouse Parcheesi Twister Scrabble Ouija and more. Golden Dictionary now available at hgh Book Shop located at 222 East Moulton street.
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Golden Dictionary
Hgh Book
E. Moulton T
Tell Me Why Britannica Word Puzzle Winner and Tobacco Tale
A newspaper notices winner Pam Eitel from Mt. Sterling Ohio and the column recaps the spread of tobacco from the Spanish to Europe after 1518. It explains tobacco origins, early cigars and cigarettes, and U S dominance in production with six tobacco types and blends including Turkish and Cuban tobaccos.
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Pam Eitel
Mt. Sterline
Ohio
New World
Europe
New Land
Spain
Turkey
Arabia
China
Japan
India
United States
Cuba
Ready Horn Wins Today’s Drawing in Indianapolis
The message requests entries for a drawing and urges participants to include name, age, and address with zip code. It names Ready Horn of Indianapolis, Indiana as today’s winner and asks for riddles and jokes to be sent to a listed mailbox with zip code details.
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Ready Horn
Indianapolis
Ind
Riddles About Smart Fish and Car Engines
A playful exchange asks why fish are smart and answers with a pun about schools. It then reveals a sponge as a holey water holder and jokes about engines by misspelling engine as Engin eer.
Drawing contest prompt with extra prize offer
A fragment from a drawing contest notice invites participants to finish a drawing for a chance to win a Britannica World Atlas and a Britannica Yearbook. The text emphasizes originality and imagination and mentions an “extra prize” as an incentive for completion.
Notice of completion of contract for water storage tanks
The signer states they have completed all work under the contract with Brindive Mountain Water and Fire Protection Authority. The scope covered furnishing fabrication and erection of two water storage tanks by Chicago Bridge and Iron Company. Date series 7 12 7 19 7 26 8 2.
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Avith
Brindive Mountain Water and Fire Protection
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
Large National Personnel System Careers Ad
Snelling and 239 Johnston, Sr. SE 2nd Floor lists hours 8:30 to 5:00 daily and Saturday by appointment. The ad promotes positions across the coast to coast CREDIT MGR TRAINEE ACCOUNTANTS INTERNAL AUDITOR PRODUCTION PLANNER.
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Johnston
Decatur Help Wanted Ad Listing
Job alert from 1916 offering positions in accounting clerks ABORER stock clerk hostess and general office workers. Salaries range from 1.40 to 70.00 per week with training provisions and age experience requirements.
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Margaret S. Halbrooks
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First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Decatur
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Frances Cocke Richardson
Will Townsend
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