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...number 125" at the base of the pyramid. The next night he becomes a "number 11" and must bring two new members, each with two dollars, to keep the organization intact. On each subsequent night, as new members multiply and form pyramids behind them, he is pushed toward the peak of his pyramid, until on the 12th night he becomes a number i and theoretically receives...
...York Daily News, biggest U.S. daily, was not feeling so chesty. It reported a January circulation of 2,175,000 daily, 4,500,000 Sunday. That was well down from the peak of 2,409,000 daily in the fall of 1947, before the News raised its price from...
...seven years, as wages, prices and employment rose, the U.S. had poured forth goods and foodstuffs like a great machine being pushed to its ultimate, agonizing peak of performance. Last week the nation heard the wheels slow down a few revolutions. Though they had cursed inflation to a man, U.S. citizens had grown so used to the howl of high-speed gears that any change in pitch sounded ominously like warnings of a slowdown...
Jordan's first Harvard wrestling team started its season with easy victories over MIT and Wesleyan, reaching its peak just before the exam period break against Columbia. After Army come Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton, and Yale...
...Gordon, associate professor of Business Administration, speaking on the program with Mason, emphasized the burden ERP places on the taxpayer and declared that the Marshall Plan gives little stimulus to inflation in this country. In fact, prices began to decline in August just when ERP spending was at its peak, Gordon added...