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...academic matters are still handled by the individual institutions. Fund drives, parietal rules, and the like are carried out through completely independent channels, but combined classes received a boost three years ago when the wartime experiment was formalized. Teaching arrangements were then said to provide for joint instruction of students in the two institutions in all cases where separate instruction would be wasteful of faculty personnel...
Berens said that the club's members roster for 1950-51, 50 men, was welcome jump above last year's roll call of 30. He attributed the sudden success that the U.N. Council seemed to be enjoying to the boost in prestige that the U.N. has received during the course of the Korean campaign...
...shouting cries of alarm. "Catastrophic inflation" is coming, they said, and quickly. To be sure, they had felt more than the ping of a single acorn. Since the start of the Korean war, there had been a slow pitter-patter of inflation. Prices had risen sharply, followed by wage boosts which threatened still further price hikes. And last week more acorns hit: auto prices started going up again (Hudson, Kaiser-Frazer, Willys, Packard and Nash boosted prices from $10 to $127), and two small steel producers hiked their prices $5-$10 a ton on steel products, a possible forerunner...
...much can the steel industry boost its capacity in the next two years? Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer put the question to steelmen three weeks ago. This week, Sawyer had his answer: the steel industry not only could but would increase capacity by 9,400,000 tons by the end of 1952, making a total capacity of 109,963,000 tons. Even before the news from Sawyer went out, two steel companies showed that they meant business. U.S. Steel Corp. announced plans to boost capacity of its Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. by 500,000 tons (to 3,350,000) within...
...most marked boost was with the Air Force, to which about 120 freshmen, almost twice last year's total, applied. When he has his units chosen, Major Jarvis R. Kingston, professor of Air Science, expects to have about 212 men in his course...