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...University was not too hard hit by the deliverymen's strike, which was called late Saturday night. Two dairies, Hood and Whiting, supply the dining halls, and only one had men out on strike. Extra milk was ordered from Hood to offset the shortage caused by the Whiting stoppage...
...production is being extended over two days for the first time in the history of the series, in order to offset the heavy demand for tickets which saw many music lovers turned away from Sanders' doors last year. Tickets for both performances are currently available at the Coop, but E. Barr Peterson '47, Glee Club Manager, reported that they are going fast...
...already noticeable. To husband its dollars, each country has clapped on stiff import controls. Chile's Foreign Exchange Control Board, for instance, has decreed that only essential items, such as machinery for new industry, can get import permits. By such close-to-the-vest trade, Chile hopes to offset her $100,000,000 deficit...
...incontrovertible fact, proved by postcards, snapshots, movie reels and the labels on their baggage, that [the globe-girdlers] have actually circumnavigated the globe. . . . Then they get four months of bridge, of comparing notes, prices and scandal with new friends delightfully like themselves, a lot of good ozone, offset by more or less continuous indigestion from rich food, liquor and lack of the exercise to which they are accustomed; innumerable Things Seen which will make them authorities not to be contradicted by the stay-at-homes for a long time to come; the sensation of having gone somewhere and returned...
Ablest and hardest hitting is Durham M. Miller's article "Propaganda and Democracy." To offset the practice of the reactionary press of allowing the only meager, selected details to ooze through the policy-filters down to the average reader, he calls for a nation-wide network of intellectual-labor newspapers, the smashing of the wood pulp and press machinery monopolies, and the establishment of "watch dogs" over the public interest in an unshackled press. "World Government, But First One World," by Stephen M. Schwebel, strikes out at federalist perfectionists who "take legal symbols for social realities." "The Coming Economic Crisis...