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...executive order setting it up was flown to Harry Truman's Florida playland last week with OWMR Boss John R. Steelman. When the President signed it, OPA's remaining 34,736 employes (peak, 63,428) and its controls over rent, rice and sugar would be absorbed by the newcomer...
...Sokolovsky had intimated Russia's willingness to 1) treat Germany as the economic unit envisaged in one part of the inconsistent Potsdam Pact and 2) greatly increase the permitted maximum level of German industry, now keyed to a potential annual steel production of 5,800,000 tons. (Wartime peak in 1943: 21,000,000 tons; depression low in 1932: 5,500,000 tons.) For this reversal of their position (previously the Russians had stubbornly pressed for lower industrial output) and for their agreement to unification, the Russians demanded a price-payable in German reparations from current production...
...though possibly a temporary one, is nevertheless not justifiable, regardless of the difficulties which the Department faces. The situation in Economics serves to underscore the fundamental problem of educational preference which underlies the fate of the tutorial system in most departments of the University. During the post-war enrollment peak, the necessity of a reduced tutorial system is understandable, but the greatest danger lies in the not too distant future when the University begins to contract. For at that time, unless an ever-growing student demand for the tutorial system persists, the already well-defined faculty apathy to the system...
...Varsity grid schedule will be cut down to eight games next fall from its 1946 peak of nine, Athletic Director William J. Bingham '16, announced Saturday, with the Crimson playing only two teams in 1947 which the eleven did not face this year...
...Climax in 1940, was the first in the Western Hemisphere and the third in the world. Located just below the timber line on the edge of a community of houses maintained by the Climax Molybdenum Company for mine employees, the observatory is directly on the Continental Divide and the peak of the observatory roof, which has a unique conical shape to prevent snow gathering, forms the water shed between the Atlantic and the Pacific...