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Princeton plays host to the Varsity wrestling team today as the Crimson matmen attempt to boost a weak record of two wins and three defeats to the .500 mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLERS OUT TO SQUASH PRINCETON | 2/28/1942 | See Source »

Business Manager Aldrich Durant has pointed out that the present restriction on beverages will soon be lifted, and that other limitations may also go by the board-all without an increase in the weekly rate. He also notes that a return to the former system will mean a boost in prices to at least $10.00 weekly, and probably more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eat, Drink and be Careful | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

...railroaders this week waited for ICC to grant them a boost in freight rates. They did not expect the full 10% increase they had asked (TIME, Dec. 22), but they did expect around 6-7½%. That would add some $275,000,000 to their 1942 revenues, atop the $45,000,000 passenger-rate increase granted last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Not How Much, But For What | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...mean increased costs to almost every big U.S. manufacturer, to consumers and to the Government, now the nation's largest single shipper. Yet at the ICC hearings the only real opposition to it came from farmer-befriending Secretary Wickard. Not even Leon Henderson protested. For he knew the boost, however inflationary, was probably inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Not How Much, But For What | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...halls on the slides toward a $40,000 deficit for the current year, drastic changes are necessary. Either revenues must be increased or costs must be reduced. At a time when the University's entire financial policy is being concentrated on a reduction in overall cost of attendance, to boost board charges would be virtual sabotage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Left to the Stomach | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

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