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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...even greater increase in the two departments would have resulted, according to Chaffee, except for a deficiency in faculty because of a lack of appointments. The iminent expansion of the science plant will probably bring about new appointments, he added...
...side of Onnecessary Mountain and straight down the other. A stiffnecked industrialist named Stubborn J. Tolliver built this suicidal grade to satisfy a boyish dream of his son, Idiot J. Tolliver. To keep "his drooling boy happy, Tolliver still starts one train a week up the tracks. Except in those instances when Capp installs switchbacks in the line, each train falls back with a crash, killing all its passengers...
...copper producers except Kennecott Copper Corp. upped prices 2? to 24½? a lb. (In the grey market the price shot...
...innocent helplessness of its heroes that gives The Twenty-Fifth Hour its heavy coating of irony. Men, Gheorghiu is saying, no longer think in terms of individuals or their happiness. Human life has ceased to mean anything except as a cog in some machine or pattern. Production, material results, categories, statistics-these are all that count. The criminals are not so much the Nazis and the Communists as the big-machine boys everywhere. And of all the nations in the world, says Gheorghiu, it is the U.S. that most fervently worships the twin cults of bigness and the machine. Author...
...hour, five day week for policemen and firemen-- a strictly local question involving only the Hub and Malden. All the state's cities but 49 will also vote on continuance of local rent control through next June. Unless Congress acts, local rules expire at the end of this year except in towns that have already provided for extending them...