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Show National News Summary s Installment Buying The volume of credit buying, steadily mounting toward the $6,-000,000, $6,-000,000, 000-mark achieved, just before Pearl Harbor, rose another an-other $113,000,000 in September to a total of $5,298,000,000, according ac-cording to a Federal Reserve Board report. This rise was much smaller, however, than the average aver-age increase of $168,000,000 a month during Tthe past twelve months. To Antarctica Two Navy ice-breakers will leave for the Antarctic this month, according to a Navy an nouncement, i ne purpose oi me trip is to test crews and equipment equip-ment in extreme cold. Each ship will carry two airplanes. GI Bonds In less than two months, ex-GIs ex-GIs have cashed $1,020,000,000 in terminal leave bonds or considerably con-siderably more than half of the $1,800,000,000 in GI terminal leave bonds voted to them by Congress. The bonds originally were five-year securities, bearing bear-ing 2Vz per cent interest. Over Treasury objections, Congress voted to make them cashable beginning be-ginning last Sept. 2. Absences f Loss of working time in industries indus-tries due to sickness declined in 1946 to reverse a trend which had been evident since 1938, according ac-cording to a Public Health Service Ser-vice report. Absences of eight or more consecutive days per 1,000 men, which rose from 82.3 in 1938 to 174.4 in 1945, dropped to 114.5. Among women, the rate went up from 130.4 in 1938 to 257.9 in 1945, but fell off to 248.2 in 1946. Navy Recruits By adding a total of 14,977 men in September, the Navy came within two-tenths of one per cent of reaching its quota for the month, according to a Navy announcement. The September Sep-tember figure represented 7,475 new enlistments and 7.502 men signing for another hitch. |