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Show HIGHLIGHTS . . . in the toeek'$ new, GUARDS: Members of the Coast Guard Temporary Reserve, an organization or-ganization established by the navy to guard factories, are being mustered mus-tered out. Civilian patrolmen will protect the plants in the future. SHOTGUN SHELLS: The WPB may release about 26,000,000 shotgun shot-gun shells for sale to civilians early in April, according to information obtained by Senator Maybank. U. S. EMPLOYMENT: Total number num-ber of persons employed in the United Unit-ed States has declined to the lowest low-est point In two years, at 50,200,000 at the end of February. Last July the total was 54.C0O.0OO. The all-time all-time peak was in August, 1912, with 54,800,000 people at work. Most of the reduction is accounted for by withdrawal of women from temporary tempo-rary jobs. |