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...Broldo '52, weekend coordinator, the idea of building on the regatta was well received by Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles. In accepting the program, Bolles declared that he was especially pleased that the Key chose this year to inaugurate this tradition because it might give the crew an extra boost in this Olympic year. Bolles also pointed out that this season also marked the 100th year of rowing at Harvard, the oldest intercollegiate sport in this country...
Sadism Gets Boost from School Kaisers...
...time it was difficult to get rooms at any price, particularly on the $90 monthly allotment given married vets, or the $65 given single ones. The AVC struggled constantly to increase pay, and in November, 1946, joined a national movement to boost the monthly allotments by $35 and coordinate them with the cost of living...
...labor following the gloomy news that they would have to get along with little or no wage increases. (He offered a formula for 40% to 80% pay rises, but these were to be based on 1949 wages, and almost all workers have had hefty pay hikes since then.) To boost farm output 20% for the export market, Peron promised his old whipping boys, the farmers, one-third more for their grain. This meant scrapping his policy of paying farmers peanuts for their crops, then selling abroad for millions to finance his lavish industrialization schemes. The President also promised to slash...
...arms program. He granted an extra 1,000,000 Ibs. for the auto industry. As a result, the industry, which had been authorized to turn out 930,000 cars in the second quarter but allowed only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000, hoped it might be able to boost its production closer to the authorized quota...