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Albert S. Carison, Dartmouth geographer, had more hope for this area. He said that the growing importance of foreign trade in our economy will benefit maritime New England, and offset the Northeast's disadvantage in domestic commerce...
...days when men were men, it was fashionable to take a heave at the oars. Which left the upper body almost parallel with the water. The principle behind this was that a mighty pull more than offset the waste motion and energy involved. Such fine points as not wobbling the boat or making a smooth recovery were ignored...
Japan no doubt could use a more experienced economic administrator than Douglas MacArthur is. But such a gain might be offset by the loss of a leader who has shown that he can be a real inspiration for the muddled Japanese people...
Since the Yale game is at New Haven next year, the plan will not go into operation until 1950. To offset this, Bingham yesterday offered season ticket buyers for next fall whether alumni or not the same locations for all games including Yale the following season...
...which the white-crystalline-powdered drug is refined. In the highland valleys of the Peruvian Andes, the green coca plants-stretch out for miles in cultivated fields, like wheat in Kansas. Use of the drug got its start after the Spanish conquest, when Peruvian Indians began chewing coca to offset the hunger and fatigue they suffered under their new masters. Later, miners took to chewing it to last out their long day, andinos to counteract high-altitude sickness. Last year 8,200 tons of the leaf were chewed up in Peru...