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...rearmament program which Defense Secretary Forrestal laid down before the Senate Armed Services Committee last week was described by him as a "minimum necessity" of U.S. military strength. Its immediate objective was to boost the armed forces to a new total of 1,734,000 men. The breakdown...
...from the Administration itself: last week the Government's surplus surged to $7,163,095,565, and all the 1947 income-tax returns were not yet totaled. When they were, the surplus might be enough to cover both the $4.8 billion tax reduction and the $3 billion budget boost which the armed forces were asking...
...Vegetables. The packinghouse workers' complaint was an old one. They were among the lowest-paid workers in any mass-production industry. They had had a total 35? boost since the war; they wanted 29? more. The packers had countered with an offer of 9? The C.I.O. union elected to fight...
...wonder just what Wall Street would consider encouraging news to investors. In midweek they found out. President Truman's speech to Congress, which seemed to promise a baby armament boom, started stocks moving up. At the same time, the prospects for earlier passage of ERP promised a boost to sagging exports; and the hope that the income-tax cut could probably be passed even over a presidential veto promised to help business all along the line...
Granting that students must accept the inevitability of the tuition boost, it is at the same time imperative that the College accept the increased responsibility toward students that the boost will involve. To begin with, the administration must exert every effort to keep the rise as small as possible. It must then set up competent machinery to deal fairly and generously with hardship cases caused by this rise. It must maintain the standards of its Student Employment Office at the very highest level. And finally, it must administer its scholarship funds, some of which have grown substantially during...