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...Curtis' Advertising Manager Fred A. Healy. This shift marked a new ascendancy in the Post for Fred Healy, crack adman who, during the last depression, extended his sway over the Post's circulation department. (An adman became circulation manager.) He then proceeded to offset normally shrinking circulation by jettisoning the ultraconservative circulation methods which had long been Cyrus H. K. Curtis' pride...
Last November there were 160 students concentrating in Engineering Sciences, an advance of 50 from the previous November as a result of the "directly useful" nature of the work. Increases in the enrollment in elementary courses have been offset by very obvious decreases in the more advanced courses, especially in the graduate school. Army and Navy officers studying electronics and cathode ray tubes and the sanitation of defense areas are an added burden to the Physics and Engineering Departments, both their teaching staffs and lecture facilities...
What advantages the Crimson might ordinarily be expected to gain from meeting the foe on home ice will be offset by the changes which Coach John Chase has been forced to make in his forward lines. Two of his three trios will be playing as a unit for the first time tonight, and this fact should cut down their operating efficiency...
...with dry-cargo tonnage (see p. 10 ), the lonely sea miles of distance offset this huge preponderance of tonnage. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) alone operates qr controls some 2,200,000 tons, nearly six times the entire Jap tanker tonnage (430,000), and twice the combined German, Italian and Jap tanker fleets. But these and other Allied tankers were built for relatively short, peacetime routes: from the Near East and Black Sea to Europe via the Mediterranean, from Gulf and Caribbean ports to Bayonne and Liverpool. By last year Britain, whose pre-war tanker fleet was over three million tons...
...mounting war production has more than offset the curtailment of civilian output in the total production picture. Even stopping the auto assembly lines will be partially offset by increases in military trucks...