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...ceremony formally welcoming them to the College, members of the second instalment of the wartime class of 1946 were told last night that Harvard had assumed a "staggering responsibility" in attempting the two-fold task of training them to win the war and preparing them to reconstruct the post-war work, all within the limits of the accelerated program...
...farm leader who was willing to take this stand has played his cards shrewdly, honestly; once a migrant farm hand, he has put himself well within the New Deal's inner fold...
...from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...
Professor Sherman deplores the five-fold increase in sugar consumption per capita in Great Britain and the U.S. during the past century, hopes that modern bread will replace sugar, for which it is the best substitute...
Describing his bureau's job, William C. Herrington, head of the branch here, said, "Our three-fold purpose is to find out the conditions of marine fisheries, to find the cause of any poor conditions we may uncover, and to develop proper remedial management means to increase and maintain good fishing yields...