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...have just seen the chart for the Yale game, and I know that a lot of people are going to be disappointed. The freshman class is in the end zone at one end of the field and the Varsity Club t the other . . . At the present time there are no people on this side of the field except the cheering section, undergraduates and the 'H' section...
...movements, working through a corps of super-tough field men. They have to be tough: observations in comfortable latitudes are helpful but not sufficient. Pole spotters have to travel into the Arctic where the pole hides out. This year three Madillmen surrounded the pole, set up delicate instruments to chart its lines of magnetic force...
Every year Arctic Canada becomes more important as a potential route for airplanes, which have to fall back on compass navigation when radio and ground contact fails them. Next season, Madill has orders to chart the position of the pole even more exactly. He may get help from the U.S. Army, which has more than a weather eye on its "Northern Frontier...
...each picture now takes about twice as much time, that same contract must be supported by two pictures or less. All of this means trouble when the present abnormal movie boom tapers off and admission prices are cut. The box-office take, which soared with rising ticket prices (see chart), can drop just as rapidly...
...President did not try to bolster the "great danger" warnings in the Steelman report. Among them: zooming living costs (see chart) and the resulting cut in real wages to the lowest point since early in the war; a drop of 8.5% in take-home pay since April 1945; inflationary pressures which could lead to "price collapse" and depression...