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Schwerin's staff studied some 2,400,000 individual meals, recommended such changes as a cut in soup (which G.I.s did not care for) and a boost in ice cream. He also worked out a formula for predicting how many soldiers would show up for a given meal, thus cut waste. The Army followed the report, saving taxpayers an estimated $110 million yearly...
...answer the SOS, the Maritime Board has just started a program which it hopes will replace at least 60 worn-out vessels each year and boost shipyard employment from a low of 20,000 to a steady 36,000 men. The board first-year goal, as approved by Congress for fiscal 1955; a total outlay of $401 million in both Government subsidies and private funds to build, modernize, and repair 99 ships in U.S. shipyards. In its overall purpose, the new program is little different from the many ship-subsidy programs that the Government has launched since the basic Merchant...
...varsity rugby team, bolstered by six English-trained players, began practicing this week. The six, a Welshman, a South African, and four Englishmen, figure to give the team a big boost in this year's four game schedule, according to Rob Albert, team captain...
Although the rise from 74 to 156 in the College may be the largest percentage increase, Lawson said the biggest numerical boost is in the Business School, where the vet total soared to 482 from 289. Entire enrollment at the Business School...
...necessity, such a program amounts to price supports for part of the U.S. mining industry. This year, for example, U.S. producers of lead and zinc were in such serious trouble that they wanted higher tariffs to protect themselves from cheaper foreign metals. President Eisenhower last month rejected the tariff boost, but instead he almost doubled the rate of stockpile buying. In fiscal 1955 stockpiling lead and zinc will cost the U.S. close to $250 million. Furthermore, some $400 million of 1955's $900 million outlay is to be used to reimburse the armed forces for the supply...