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...remedy the housing problem, the noted economist suggests that the guaranteed interest rate of the Federal Housing Administration be reduced from five to four percent. Lower building material costs and reduced hourly wage rates are vitally necessary. "With building costs as high now as in 1926 and the national income 25 percent lower," lower," he said, "the situation is not favorable for a large expansion in housing construction...
...kitchen workers and waitresses will also cast their ballots on the unionization question but they have already signed a contract with the University for sole bargaining rights and are conceded an 85 percent majority...
...They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation of war, carried out by rather obscure ballet, and jibes are distributed to the Vassar girl who finds a job at Macy's, the upper crust on a slumming party, the 100 percent American, and the Federal Theatre, with its repressions and inhibitions, all of which are quite effective except the last, which drags. The most fun of the whole show, however, is the scene called Economics I, in which the elementary principles are set forth by having the banker shoot in the pants...
Tracing the concessions of the Czechoslovakian government to the increasing vocal German minority, 80 percent of which is controlled by the Sudoten German party, Marx declared that the demands of Henlein for a "state within a state" may indicate that Henlein himself does not want a mutually satisfactory agreement...
Eighty-five percent of Harvard upperclassmen take part in some extra-curricular activity revealed the Crimson Questionaire distributed last Thursday, and it is House athletics and activities which are largely responsible for such a high percentage...