Highest. The cost of living reached an alltime high in April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The Bureau's index rose 1.4% to 169.3 (1935-39 equals 100), more than wiping out the drop caused by February's commodity price break.
New Suitor. Rail Juggler Robert R. Young was determined to get the girl, even if he had to take up with her prosperous friends too. The Interstate Commerce Commission had turned down the trial marriage of his Chesapeake & Ohio with the New York Central, partly because it would take business away from the Virginian Railway Co. (TIME,...
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