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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...boom started." Thus the recent sluggishness of the stockmarket, despite soaring production indices, is evidently deeply rooted in Management's long-range mistrust of the defense hypodermic. This mistrust was confirmed by the Forum's feeling on whether now is a good time for business to expand: 26% thought expan sion unjustified by present conditions, 61% saw it justified in war industries only...
This is the second time P. B. H. has taken steps to expand social service work. Last summer Harry Newman, Jr. '42 toured west coast colleges in an attempt to spread the P. B. H. ideas. This spring Harvard will take the lead again...
...Birmingham is still changing fast. Two years ago the basing point system's freight-rate differentials against Birmingham were abolished, and Birmingham, whose pig iron is $4.83 a ton cheaper than Pittsburgh's, got a green light to expand. Defense has hastened the process. Purely defense backlogs for the area total at least $90,000,000, include $8,000,000 shell contracts let last week, $32,400,000 for four destroyers in its shipyards, $23,500,000 for Reynolds Metals' aluminum plant. Though four Birmingham companies have had educational shell orders for a year and a half...
...dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan's; and the cloudless blue weather of that day made him utter four cryptic words which now are taken to mean that Japan should expand to the ends of the earth: "Eight directions...
...also urged that "if the War Department should decide to reverse its present policy and expand the teaching personnel in college R.O.T.C. corps," careful consideration should be given "to the fact that both units here were heavily over-applied this year, indicating a demand for more officers' training at Harvard than present facilities can provide...