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...seacoast fire-control radar" can detect individual vessels 25 miles out to sea through the soupiest nor'easter, with a five-yard margin of error at twelve miles...
Smith, Gore, and Standish Halls will continue to operate as Freshman dormitories and not as Houses, Dean Leighton stated. With Freshman migrations being discouraged, Smith Hall will remain completely filled, as will every entry in Standish except one. Regardless of, any caprices of the Admissions Committee, a comfortable margin for error in entrance estimates exists in Gore, where 60 per cent of the rooms are vacant this summer...
...reported: "All signs . . . point to heavy gains for the Labor party . . . with a real chance that the Liberals will hold the balance of power. The Conservatives still feel that they will get a majority, but the experts believe it will be, at best, a much smaller one than the margin of 50 or more seats which Prime Minister Churchill aimed at. . . . Great Britain, in short, has swung well to the left and it only remains to be seen how far to the left...
Confident Claims. Last week Laborites confidently claimed that they have won at least 100 seats from the Conservatives. They believed that voting for 50 other seats had gone so much in their favor that the result would be decided by a very narrow margin. If Labor has won 100 new seats, it would have 266 seats in the next Parliament-22 seats short of the number on which Ramsay MacDonald formed his second Labor Government...
...usual, brokers had many and conflicting explanations for the breaks: the Federal Reserve Board might boost margin requirements to 100%; the war with Japan might end, etc., etc. But the plain fact seemed to be that the market had long been riding for a fall-and at last it fell...