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Refusing to go completely out of business, Yarmolinsky stated that all the paper needs to finish out the year is a good financial boost. He has already appealed for a loan from the Student Council and Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debts Force Freshman Paper to Change From Weekly to Monthly | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...practically no reliable information" about secretive Japan's naval program, then informed a Senate committee that Japan reportedly is building not four but eight new battleships. His moral: the U. S. had best hurry along its eight battleships now under construction, including two 45,000 tonners, boost pending naval appropriations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Mr. Speers's Navy | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Well-deserved, in fact, is Sponsor Albert Jay Nock's boost: "A worthy, unusual and original contribution to American letters." Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Aphorisms | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Another of Göring's men last week got a boost in power and prestige. Hitler named Major General Dr. Fritz Todt (rhymes with butt) Minister for Arms & Munitions, gave him the immediate job of speeding up production of armaments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: No. 2 Nazi | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Sponsor of the 500 meetings was the Foreign Missions Conference of North America (representing 129 Protestant bodies with 30,000,000 adherents). Purpose of the meetings: to boost foreign missions. First step: to call foreign missions "Christian Foreign Service." The hour-and-a-half broadcast, carried on three networks and numerous short-wave stations, gave Christian Foreign Service the widest hearing it had ever had. Next: a campaign for funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Foreign Service | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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