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...Finnish loan-nor Chinese needs for the road-builders, trucks and other U. S. goods (exclusive of implements of war) which China will buy with it. What made it big was the tremendous leverage that U. S. currency exerts in terms of Far Eastern money, the tremendous boost that 20,000,000 hard U. S. dollars (worth $140,000,000 soft Chinese) give to the Chinese economic system, which for four years has been besieged in a currency war almost as economically devastating as the Japanese invasion has been in terms of human suffering...
...discussion with a group of friends last night, Arthur S. Harris, Jr. '43, instigator of the bureau, admitted that his sole aim in starting the idea was to use the publicity to boost himself for president of his class...
...upset for the Crimson. The Hoddermen have probably been a bit overrated over since that creditable display against the Orange and Black stickmen. Later, the Tigers were cuffed around considerably by Canadian teams, but the 7 to 3 pasting they handed out to Dartmouth in Hanover gave another indirect boost to Harvard hockey...
...forcing the University to boost wage rates last year, the union was indirectly responsible for the rise in board rates for the House dining halls. Stefani denied yesterday that there was any move contemplated to injure students and said that any pay readjustments were within the limits of proper returns to the workers...
...House Appropriation Subcommittee hearings printed last week revealed that Mr. Morgenthau had recommended a $5,000,000,000 boost in the debt limit...