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...hiring players to boost the glory of the Crimson and to fill the till is not a necessary or a desirable part of the athletic program at Harvard. However, without professionalism even a master coach like Dick Harlow cannot turn out a superlative team every autumn. If we play football as a game and not as an industry we must take our chances on attracting material to Cambridge. Harvard's drawing power, perforce, will be its reputation, not its alumni...
...Arbor, twinkle-toed Tom Harmon, most spectacular broken-field runner since Red Grange, staged a one-man show, rolled up 21 points for Michigan (three touchdowns, three conversions)-enough to beat Michigan State, 21-to-14, and boost the Wolverines' prestige as favorite to win the Big Nine (Big Ten before Chicago counted herself out) championship...
...priced Nash sixes and eights as much as $159 (new prices $923 to $1,151). Arch-independent Mason also bucked the trend by yanking all the fancy work off the higher-priced Nash-giving it a sleek, custom-made appearance. The new "600" and price cuts, prophesies Mason, will boost Nash output to a record 125,000 cars this year, more than double 1940 model sales...
...output of the U. S. wood-pulp industry practically equaled U. S. consumption. Production this year, said he, should hit a record 9,000,000 tons, up 27% from 1939's 7,107,000 tons. Furthermore, if U. S. pulpsters bring old, inefficient plants into action, they can boost production another...
...When the price stays above the legal 20? for a reasonable period (two or three weeks) R. R. C. may invoke its contract with the Dutch-British rubber cartel, International Rubber Regulations Committee, which controls 97% of the world supply. I. R. R. C. will then be obliged to boost its quotas to the U. S., send the price down to where R. R. C. can enter the market again. This week, unscared R. R. C. announced that it would buy another 180,000 tons of rubber next year...