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...trade contract out of mineral-rich Bolivia and has added another balky satellite to his growing sphere of influence. The pact was ostensibly signed in an aura of good will and mutual agreement, but actually was achieved through a complete strangulation of Bolivian economy. Dependent on Argentina for ninety percent of its wheat and sixty percent of its meat quota, the newly democratic government unwisely flaunted its independence in Peron's whiskers and speedily found that all rail lines leading to the frontier-had developed a sudden shortage of rolling stock. The Bolivian government held off to the point...
...such as Harvard, and with its polls and pamphlets the Office has done this thoroughly and well. At Yale, however, the Placement Bureau lays similar basic foundations, while emphasizing actual placement. In 1941, of the 213 students who went directly into business or industry, the Bureau helped place sixty percent. The Harvard Office makes no claim to anything approaching this record...
...Fully 20 percent of the students of the College have for various reasons not yet been approached, Campbell stated. In addition, Law and Business School men, as well as the faculty and commuters, have not responded favorably to letters of solicitation...
Pointing out that 25 percent of the University's expenditures go into the pockets of members of the Association, Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, urged the members to put in a good day's work in order to justify their large share of the University's expenditures...
Despite an unprecedented high of $17,115.82 in collected pledges, the Student Service Fund was flattened by the contributions of only 43 percent of the College, Roger S. Kuhn '46, retiring student council treasurer disclosed in his report for the fall term, made public yesterday...