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United States Television Mfg. Corp. announced a new 15-m. receiving tube (with a flat instead of the normally convex face) which will increase the size of pictures on its sets some 10-20% at no boost in price. And Radio Corp. of America told of a much greater improvement to come (probably by year's end). It has developed a 16-in. steel cathode-ray tube (the basic part of a television set) which can be mass-produced to replace glass tubes now in use, thus lowering the costs of some sets...
...cutback, said General Manager Edgar F. Kaiser, represented "an economy drive in the face of mounting costs that have forced several auto manufacturers recently to raise prices." It was more than that. The company's failure to get new financing (TIME, Feb. 23), with which it hoped to boost output to 1,500 cars a day, had left it in a tight spot...
Esprit de House received a boost from the Dunster House Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee last week in the form of free courses in the liberal arts of rhumba, chess, bridge, and squash...
...room rents for non-House purposes penalize those living in the dormitories, yet leave commuters and married students untouched. Why such a distinction should exist is not clear. A still more vital objection to the $100,000 tithe is that a rent rise hurts the veteran more than a boost in tuition. For an increase in rent must come from the veteran's meager subsistence allowance, or, if that is used up, from his personal savings, while a tuition boost can be absorbed by surplus eligibility time. Even the recently voted increase in subsistence allotments, which will almost exactly cover...
...boost is really necessary to cover rising costs, and it is not a hidden, unnecessarily expensive, and poorly distributed rise in tuition, Housemasters and housing officials should take advantage of the situation to eliminate current confused and unfair room rent discrepancies. The cases of occupants of small, evamped rooms being charged higher rents than those living in more spacious and desirable suites are too numerous under the present sealing system for current prices to seem other than haphazard. Any increase in rent affords a perfect opportunity to iron out these iniquities...