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Since the hike puts the price of dinner at one dollar, students will have to pay an additional five cents to cover the Massachusetts old age tax on meals of that price. There was some debate as to whether lunch or dinner should be subject to the increase...
...House of Commons last week, Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced a further fiscal tightening up. Chief items: 1) a hike in the minimum down payment on most consumer goods from one-fifth to one-third, on automobiles from one-third to one-half; and 2) a cut in the maximum credit period for installment buying from 18 to twelve months. The new restrictions are tougher than those imposed in the U.S. (where installment payments may extend through 15 months). They are also tougher, in the case of automobiles, than the Dominion's own rules at the height of World...
These measures included a 15 percent rent hike and cutbacks in secretary and lower echelon faculty personnel. Such adjustments in the University's budget will save it $500,000 or $600,000 a year. If a normal (a little over 4300) number of students registers next September, some of the planned personnel reductions will probably have to be abandoned...
...distinguished, unrelated Lewises, they picked Cecil (C. Day Lewis, the poet) over Clive (C. S. Lewis, the Anglican theologian, author of the Screwtape Letters), 194 votes to 173. Neither candidate seemed to be pining for office. C. S. Lewis (TIME Cover, Sept. 8, 1947) was off on a long hike; C. Day Lewis was having a drink in his London flat...
Student reactions to the proposed 15 percent hike in room rents and the porter plan varied from "unfortunate but necessary" to "it's a ridiculous, escapist plot," in a CRIMSON sampling taken last night...