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Wallace, pitching brilliant ball, retired the first 17 men in order without a hit. His fast ball and curve so completely fooled the opposing batters that ten of them went down swinging. Wallace gave another boost to his cause, and to his record, by blasting out a terrific home run in the third inning with nobody...
...coal is being dug. The Army Service Forces, busily fixing up the railroads and clearing the canals, soon hope to have them in shape. As yet, Ruhr production is small-only 500,000 tons of low quality coal (brown coal or lignite) a month. But the Allies hope to boost this to 3,500,000 tons 'of hard coal and 2,500,000 tons of brown coal by Christmas. While this is far less than Germany's prewar production in the Ruhr (9,000,000 tons of hard coal and 4,000,000 tons of brown coal...
...usual, brokers had many and conflicting explanations for the breaks: the Federal Reserve Board might boost margin requirements to 100%; the war with Japan might end, etc., etc. But the plain fact seemed to be that the market had long been riding for a fall-and at last it fell...
When the catalogue listing course offerings for 1945-46 appeared in May, the SERVICE NEWS commented that Liberal Arts education at Harvard had "received its most forthright and encouraging boost since the start of the second world war." Strikingly evident in the new course list was the emphasis on the Soviet Union by the Economics, Geography, and Anthropology Departments...
When the catalogue listing course offerings for 1945-46 appeared last month, the SERVICE NEWS commented that Liberal Arts education at Harvard had "received its most forthright and encouraging boost since the start of the second world war." Strikingly evident in the new course list was the emphasis on the Soviet Union by the Economics, Geography, and Anthropology Departments...