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...always more pleasant to boost than to knock, and it would be nice to be able to say that the performance against Springfield "marked a definite turn in Crimson grid fortunes." Nice, perhaps, but not true, for the Harvard team still shows many weaknesses, some of which may be erased, in time...
...backfield also promises much, both offensively and defensively. Art French and John Tulenko give the secondary a big speed boost. If linebacker Tom Ossman can keep busting through tougher lines the way he splintered Springfield's the Crimson defense will stop a good many enemy marches...
Packard, which got in under the wire with a new model before the price freeze, was the only auto company so far which said it intends to keep current prices. OPS also admitted that still another auto boost is on the way. Under the new Defense Production Act, automakers can base increases not only on higher costs, but dealers will be allowed to restore their traditional mark...
House building could stand a boost. Private home building in August slumped to $920 million, one-third under the same month last year; the dollar volume of private commercial building dropped 6%, while industrial building doubled. With easier credit, builders who have been predicting dire troubles for the industry now expect to put up 850,000 houses this year, the goal of the Government all along...
...Approved a boost of $2.2 billion in corporation taxes-$760 million less than the figure voted by the House...