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...installment plan system, of payment will help boost sales of the Radcliffe 1950 Yearbook, Under the new plan, Miss Evans stated, a girl may put one dollar down at the time of subscription, two dollars at payday, and the remainder at the time of delivery. Price of the Yearbook has been set at five dollars...
General Education and the college's scholarship fund will get a big financial boost from the Class of 1924's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Gift, Provost Buck announced yesterday...
...John in the slightest. He had not even bothered to talk with the southern operators, some of whom had precipitated the walkout (say the miners) by withholding payments to the welfare fund. He still refused to discuss his new contract demands with the northern operators. (Best guess: a boost in the present royalty for the fund to 30? a ton, reduction of the present eight-hour day to seven with no loss...
...ostensible reason for the strike was wages (the printers had asked for a boost of $14.50 a week), but the real issue was Randolph's defiance of the Taft-Hartley Act ban on closed-shop clauses in contracts. Randolph dropped a formal contract, asked publishers to agree to "conditions of employment" continuing the prized closed shop that Chicago's printers first won 50 years ago. In many cities, publishers agreed; in Chicago, they refused...
...World War II. First German, then Allied bombs wrecked half its homes, wiped out many of its historic monuments and art treasures; by last year Tournai had rebuilt only 100 or so of its thousands of damaged dwellings. A group of citizens decided that sagging morale needed a boost, began to collect some reminders of the days when Tournai was one of the art centers of the western world. They visited neighboring chateaux, searched dusty parish churches and libraries, sent off letters to distant museums, burrowed in the debris around them...