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Both Yale and Penn gave a boost to their 150-pound crew squads when Yale named a part-time 150-pound coach to fill a spot that was vacant since the end of last season, and Penn announced its intention to financially support its team...
...Croix de Guerre evacuating wounded under fire in Belgium in 1940, a French Resistance fighter, Andree-Claire Montboisses is assistante sociale to the commander of the French volunteer battalion. No other nation among the 17 in the U.N. army has anything like her. Her job: to boost morale and minister to the wounded in battle...
...recognized the old recluse's mastery before his death in 1906-and the master himself was not among them. Today his reputation is still waxing. Next week Chicago's Art Institute will give it a further boost with an extensive exhibition of Cézanne's lifework...
After all the backing & filling on steel prices, steel is getting ready for another rise. This week OPS sent out drafts of an order that will allow steelmen to adjust their prices to higher costs, using the Capehart formula. Only steelmen know how much the boost will be. But Washington price controllers, who have been saying no to an increase for months, now guess that steel may jump anywhere from a dollar or two to as high as $8 a ton, thus giving inflation another nudge...
...chip game of oil, gambling on wildcats is part of his business. Wildcatting has helped make Humble the No. 1 U.S. producer of crude oil, and more than doubled its output in a decade (from 49 million bbls. in 1940 to 103 million in 1950). It also helped Humble boost its net profit by 66% in 1951's first half, the latest report it has issued...