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Archibald Cox '34, professor of Law and head of the Wage Stabilization Board, yesterday quit his government job. He apparently left in protest over President Truman's approval of a $1.90 wage boost for coal miners, although he had long been expected to resign at about this time...
...drawback than the bulky landing gear of a big bomber. Jet engines have cut down the need to raise old-fashioned seaplane propellers high out of the spray. And the hydro-ski, a beefed-up version of the sportsman's waterski, has given the seaplane the biggest boost...
...Committee on Enrollment has been expanding its scholarship program so that it may bring to Yale "all the people it wants..." The University, faced with increased calls for financial aid, decided soon after the war to drastically boost appropriations to the scholarship program. Presently, $1,032,241 has been accumulated for award purposes...
...Cruiser, with bar, built-in TV, movie screen, radiotelephone, conference room, and sundeck from which a model dived into a portable swimming pool. Price: $75,000. But the trailer that interested dealers most was the National, a smaller model with which Mid-States President William MacDonald, 44, hopes to boost his sales 36% next year to $30 million...
Rolling Along. After a hefty boost from the wartime and postwar housing shortage, trailer makers kept right on rolling; more than 150 manufacturers last year turned out 65,000 units. Where once the trailer was a jerry-built, often homemade affair, it is now a solid living unit scientifically designed for comfort. Once, half of those who bought trailers were tourists; now almost all the nation's 1,750,000 trailer owners live full-time in their mobile homes, parked in 12,000 "trailer parks" (never "camps" to the trade) from coast to coast...