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Local hockey followers got a surprise boost last night when Boston College edged Dartmouth's championship sextet 4 to 3, at the Arena...
...paid for its first try at bailing out the world with higher prices all around. Everyone, as expected, put the blame on everyone else. Foreign nations blamed the U.S. for the high prices, which had sucked away their cash, without conceding that their buying had helped boost the prices. Corporations took a big cut out of the income pie; net corporate profits after taxes (including the "paper" profits on inventories) of $17.4 billion were up 39% over net profits in 1946. (But corporations still had a smaller share of the total income than...
...made cyclotrons work by making electrically charged particles (such as deuterons) circle faster & faster inside a vacuum chamber. On each trip around, they get two boosts from a rapidly alternating electrical field. If the vacuum chamber were big enough, they might move in straight lines and pick up their energy from one long boost...
Reserves to sustain these seven men is a crying need for Berg. Stiff competition for first string positions on any athletic team gives a psychological boost to the entire squad plus giving much needed mid-competition rests for the starters. Berg uses the reserves he has. The big reason for the 59 to 32 lop-sided defeat that the Yearlings handed Nichols Junior College was that Berg boarded reserves during a low scoring first half to spring a fresh and superior quintet on the groggy Nichols five in the last two quarters...
...Rate-Boost. U.S. railroads, out for higher rates all around, got a sop from the ICC. It granted the roads a 25% temporary increase in mail rates. The increase, estimated to yield the railroads more than $32,000,000 a year, will remain in effect until ICC acts on their request for a permanent 45% hike in mail...