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...Force last week let out a shocking fact: U.S. aircraft production is now lagging a full year behind schedule. In admitting this, the Air Force said that it needs another $25 to $30 billion boost in its appropriation-as if money could settle everything. Actually, production has fallen so far behind schedule that even a $100 billion boost would not get planes off the production lines any faster under present circumstances...
Maids and janitors asked the University for a new wage boost in a surprise letter to Edward Reynolds, administrative vice-president, yesterday. Although their present contract does not run out until June, the employees want the hike now because of "increased taxes" and the rising cost of living...
Movies will get still another boost at 10:30 p.m. tonight when two College seniors and two Radcliffe undergraduates appear on Al Capp's television show originating at the WBZ-TV studio. When not performing, Capp draws the comic strip, "L'll Abner...
...College dormitories, cited a rise in care taking expenses from $470,000 last year to an estimated $454,000 in 1951-52. Janitors' hours have been reduced by an average of two hours a week without any loss in wages. and maids have been given a five percent salary boost...
With the new higher rents, the dormitories are expected to show the normal $100,000 surplus again this year, as they did in 1949-50. Trottenberg reported that a series of budgets had been drawn up last year before the 15 percent rent boost...