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College enrollment will hit a post-war peak of approximately 2700 by the end of mid-year registration for students in residence, figures revised downward since Friday by the Registrar's office showed early yesterday. More than 1400 men who were in the College during the fall term are expected to tie through Mem Hall's alleys between 9 and 5 o'clock today...
This week Lewis Clark led his men back to work. Housewives heaved a sigh of relief. So did farmers-the hog run, stopped at its peak, had backed up all over the Midwest, and grain for feeding was running low. So, too, did Lewis Clark's union...
...fiscal '47, the President proposed to spend $35,860,000,000. This was far below 1945's wartime peak of $100 billion, well below 1946's $67 billion. But it was still far above anything dreamed of in prewar years...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose name had just been given to a mountain in Canada (TIME, Jan. 21), was presented with the chance of a conversationalist's lifetime by Senator Edwin C. Johnson, who told him Colorado hoped to honor him the same way. "You have Pikes Peak now," said the General, fielding the opportunity one-handed, "and you want Ike's Peak...
Some of CED's conclusions were open to argument; union labor would not agree that its earnings are only "slightly below" the war's peak. But few would quarrel with Chairman Hoffman's conclusion that the problem is no longer how to achieve full employment. The question now is: how can it be maintained...