Wartime Health and Education: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 74, a Resolution Authorizing an Investigation of the Educational and Physical Fitness of the Civilian Population as Related to National Defense, Part 3

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Page 1108 - maintenance" level is described as above the "minimum of subsistence" level or "emergency" level of relief budgets, but below the standard of the skilled worker. It is stated that this budget does not "approach the content of what may be considered a satisfactory American standard of living".
Page 1497 - Survey of Current Business published by the Department of Commerce. The Veterans...
Page 1492 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs -is hereby authorized and directed to include in the regulations pertaining to service connection of disabilities additional provisions in effect...
Page 1218 - ... gravely threatened with gangster rule. But I do not think that any of us Americans can be content with mere survival. Sacrifices that we and our Allies are making impose upon us all a sacred obligation to see to it that out of this war we and our children will gain something better than mere survival. We are united in determination that this war shall not be followed by another interim which leads to new disaster — that we shall not repeat the tragic errors of ostrich isolationism — that...
Page 1540 - It will cost in appropriations about 1 percent of the present annual cost of the war. (4) Early reenactment of the stabilization statute of October 1942. This expires June 30, 1944, and if it is not extended well in advance, the country might just as well expect price chaos by summer. We cannot have stabilization by wishful thinking. We must take positive action to maintain the integrity of the American dollar.
Page 1200 - Salary increases in proportion to increases in the cost of living should be provided now. 2. Regular increments on salary schedules should be paid, but regular increments do not take the place of cost-of-living increases. 3. Where salary cuts imposed during the depression are still in effect, the predepression salaries should be restored and a cost-of-living adjustment made also.
Page 1540 - Congress adopt: (1) A realistic tax law— which will tax all unreasonable profits, both individual and corporate, and reduce the ultimate cost of the war to our sons and daughters.
Page 1092 - Index of the cost of living has advanced 5.5 percent. It has increased 3.5 percent since the beginning of this year, and the upward pressure is now intense. In a single month from the middle of May to the middle of June, the cost of living jumped 2 percent.
Page 1089 - The general index is a national average, and relates to large cities only. There is considerable variation in the level of living costs in different parts of the country, and in the degree of change in living costs in different regions. There are industrial variations in living costs. Costs in coal towns and textile towns are affected by special factors and have distinctive movements. Living cost changes vary also with income levels. Recent advances have been somewhat greater for workers at lower...
Page 1540 - Congress, to take undue profits out of war. (3) A cost of food law — which will enable the Government (a) to place a reasonable floor under the prices the farmer may expect for his production; and (b) to place a ceiling on the prices a consumer will have to pay for the food he buys. This should apply to necessities only; and will require public funds to carry out. It will cost in appropriations about one per cent of the present annual cost of the war.

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