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Show National News Summary "Phantom" Contracts As part of a move to cut the required time for future mobilization mobili-zation "anywhere from five to twelve months," the Government will soon offer to American concerns con-cerns nearly $1,000,000,000 in "phantom" war contracts. The contracts would not take effect unless the Government gave a "go-ahead" order on some future M-Day. From them, industries would know what the Government Govern-ment needs, about. how much it would pay and would give business busi-ness a chance to compute in advance ad-vance what it would need in manpower, materials and money to carry out the contracts. Net Sales Net sales of U, S. Corporations increased nearly $3,300,000,000 in the second quarter of 1948, compared to the corresponding period of last year, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The total of $26,-846,890,000 $26,-846,890,000 in the April-June period against $23,000,000,000 a year ago. Air Force The Air Force of the United States enjoyed an increase of more than 89.000 men during last year, bringing the total number num-ber up from about 311.000 to more than 400,000 men and officers. Slates Employees States governments in the United States employ a total of 926,000 persons, with a total monthly payroll of $171,000,000. making the average earnings $185. States employment rose 66,000, or 8 per cent, and payrolls pay-rolls $31,000, or 22 per cent, over the preceding 12 months. Eight State governments New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Caro-lina, California, Illinois. Texas, Ohio and Michigan account for 44 per cent of the number employed by all forty-eight states and exactly half of the total of the states' payroll. Loyalty Check The Federal Bureau of Investigation Inves-tigation has announced that since the start of the Federal loyalty cheek, it had found 2.110,521 Federal workers so beyond suspicion sus-picion that full investigations into in-to their loyalty were unnecessary. unneces-sary. A total of 6,344 full investigations inves-tigations have been started since the beginning of the program and thus far 5,421 of them, or 86 per cent, have been completed. complet-ed. Of these, 619 resigned during dur-ing investigations and 44 others were found to be no longer in Government employ. The remaining remain-ing 4,758 cases were turned over to the Civil Service Commission for decision. |