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2. Chief Electrician.
3. Director of Defense Mobilization.
4. Secretary of State.
5. Director of the War Labor Board.
58. Named to the unpopular task of setting up a system for general price controls was this former Toledo mayor:
1. Alan Valentine.
2. Bernard Baruch.
3. Leon Henderson.
4. Michael V. DiSalle.
5. Chester Bowles.
59. For the second time in seven weeks the nation's transportation system was tied up early in February by a wildcat strike of:
1. Railroad switchmen and yardmen.
2. Bus drivers.
3. Section foremen.
4. Airline pilots.
5. Stevedores.
60. Labor's greatest post-war victory in Continental Europe was the "co-determination" plan under which unions gained a partnership with management in the industries of:
1. Italy.
2. France.
3. The Ruhr.
4. Poland.
5. Belgium.
61. With prices at all-time highs in many commodities, the Government late in January clamped on wage-price controls under an edict which provided all but one of the following:
1. Price freezes at the highest levels between Dec. 19 and Jan. 25.
2. A rollback of prices to July 1 levels.
3. Exemptions of certain things like real estate and broadcasting services from the freeze.
4. Wage fixing at a rate no higher than the worker was receiving Jan. 25.
5. Future wage increases subject to approval by Wage Stabilization Board.
Here and There
62. The 1950 Census revealed that:
1. Every state had grown in population.
2. All but four states had increased in population.
3. New York grew the most.
4. Texas had more mules than Missouri.
5. The count will not affect the states' representation.
63. A two-year survey of U.S. charity by the Russell Sage Foundation revealed that:
1. Only the rich are generous.
2. Only the poor are generous.
3. The very poor and the very rich are the most generous of all.
4. The average family gives about 10% of its income to charity.
5. The Salvation Army had abandoned tambourines.
64. A new strategy for the defense of Alaska was developed after U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff decided to turn the command of the theater over to:
1. General MacArthur.
2. The Navy
3. The WACs.
4. The Air Force.
5. The Eskimos.
What & Where
Directions: Located on this map, and identified in the statements below, are scenes of recent developments in the news. Write on the answer sheet (opposite the number of each statement) the number which correctly locates the place or event described.
65. Here was formed the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA, described by church leaders as "one of the most historic events in American Christianity."
66. The bloody trail of crime which cost six lives ended here with the cap ture of Desperado William E. Cook.
67. Where the hydrogen bomb plant will be built.
68. State where Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas was defeated in an election upset.
OTHER EVENTS
Art and Entertainment
69. Last chapters in the decline & fall of a pet Jazz Age novelist are told in: