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Dean Hanford predicted yesterday that the policy of the Faculty Committee on War Service credit, of which he is chairman, would become less strict as the peak enrollments of the next two terms taper off. One of the present policy's chief objectives is to make it possible to admit a maximum number of new veterans during this critical period...
Less than 24 hours after the Star of Cairo took off from Paris, a party of marines reached a snowy peak in California's Laguna Mountains. There, among a litter of wrecked engines, with gaily wrapped Christmas packages amidst the twisted metal, they found what they had come for-the bodies of nine passengers and three crew members of Western Airlines Flight 44-El Centre to San Diego...
Glowed Captain Pate, who had won his gamble: "I've always said Kramer and Schroeder at their peak are the best doubles team in the world. They very nearly reached that peak today." Ted Schroeder was now free to go back to Glendale, Calif, to sell refrigerators, a job he stuck to most of last summer when other U.S. tennis stars were playing tournaments. Said he: "A fellow's got to quit this tennis sometime and get down to business...
...price of food, which had reached an alltime high in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, began slipping down. As yet, the drop was too small to bring many cheers from consumers. But it looked as if the peak in food was passed. The overall cost-of-living index had been still edging up in December. By last week, it looked as if it too might soon start down...
...farmers who strained their backs to raise wartime bumper crops when help was scarce went on to bigger & better yields when the help came back. In 1946, crop production broke all records, topping the wartime 1942 peak by 2%, and soaring 26% over the 1923-32 (pre-drought) average...