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Contesting these arguments, the speakers for the negative, stating that the crash in 1929 came at a period of peak employment, claimed that a guaranteed annual wage would not assure sufficient consumer purchasing power to guarantee a market for the products of industry...
Edward R. Murrow, Columbia's new chief of news and public-service programs, had set up a five-man task force last fall "to do nothing but documentary programs, ten or twelve a year, which will all be broadcast at peak listening hours."* In only six months CBS had spent more than $100,000 on the unit...
...unhealthy emphasis on grades." Here is a problem that Bender will inherit in all its complexity from Dean Hanford next July: how to relax the veteran and Keep Harvard from becoming a round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their peak demand for admission to last longer than in the College. Nonetheless, a greater emphasis on activities, more efficiently run activities, a Student Activities Center--in general, more official interest in the extra-curriculum, might help to alleviate what it known, in quotes, as "student apathy...
Vegetable seed sales were slipping. At the peak of Victory-gardening enthusiasm in 1944, when the U.S. had an estimated 22 million gardeners, vegetables accounted for nearly 75% of all seed sales; now they were leveling off to a peacetime norm of slightly more than 50%. But vegetable growers, too, had plenty of novelties to choose from. Almost all seedsmen were featuring a new brownish-tinged lettuce called Bronze Beauty. Other attractions: a midget watermelon (Schling), a hybrid eggplant (Burpee), a yellow sweet pepper (Manhattan's Peter Henderson), a "giant tree tomato" (Vaughan's of Chicago...
...Varsity wasn't up to its Columbia peak, but it didn't have to be. Complete Crimson mastery of both backboards proved a decisive factor in the victory, as the highly-touted Jack Colberg, Penn center, was obscured by Hauptfuhrer and colleagues underneath the basket...