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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences has voted to change the date of the Christmas recess this year from December 19 to December 26 to the week of Wednesday, December 22, through Tuesday, December 28. The shift of dates has been made in order to avoid the necessity of travel over the weekends, especially the Christmas weekend, when trains and buses will be overcrowded. Also, the recess originally announced would have made it necessary for students living at a distance to leave home on Christmas day in order to be back for their first class on Monday, December...
...Principle of Numbers. To avoid "the numbers racket" Army Air Forces made other production changes, discontinued some models, stepped up the building of others, threw new and still secret models into the production works. To do this while keeping production growing, in bulk, called for the continued production of types which had been outmoded by newer models...
...that "Government should get out of active industry as soon as it can." Reassuringly, he said he thought a good deal of Government equipment could go to build up the economies of foreign nations. Then he enunciated a principle dear to the heart of the average Congressman: that "to avoid monopolies and too much concentration, local people should have the first call on such plants...
...Fakir, whose real name is Harry von Wickede (he claims Swiss parentage and studied yoga in India), had left one hand free-partly to avoid the blasphemy of complete duplication of the crucifixion, partly to smoke mentholated cigarets (three packs a day) and to drink countless bottles of soda pop. The table had a built-in toilet...
...avoid dictatorship, jobs ought to be made for at least 55,000,000 workers. . . . The least hopeful aspect of our future is that amateurs are likely to be tinkering with our economic machinery. . . . It should be kept in mind that generous, even fabulous, rewards for those at the top are as a magnet that all along has been exerting an upward pull. . . . After all, what you find in a pay envelope is profit and most of the people I have known in my life have been constantly trying to get a fatter pay envelope...