Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps walked into the House of Commons and presented his first budget. He was a brisk and confident man, for passage of ERP in the U.S. Congress helped him meet Britain's most pressing economic problem-the shortage of dollars. But how to check inflation? And how to induce people to work harder when there was still too little in British shops to buy? Cripps was characteristically clear and crisp. M.P.s did not like all he said, but they enjoyed the performance. When Cripps had finished his 2¼-hour speech...
...forces: "We understand the food situation is very bad in the Jewish quarter. It will be no more than two weeks before they have to surrender. After the 15th of May, if there is no foreign interference, it will take no more than three months to solve the Palestine problem...
Spaulding is a Soc Rel 55 student, and to has to write a paper. So he is polling the Harvard "pinsters." The answers themselves may not clear up the problem, but they make very dull reading...
...proposal for tightening up the field of Biochemical Sciences has been to limit it to honors candidates only, but this raises again the problem of what to do with non-honors men, who without much doubt would be far less well off in another field. Also to be considered are the group of men who might start out as honors candidates, but after being in the field a year or two fall below the honors level...
...Band, like many other student organizations, has run afoul of the money problem, and has finally been reduced to asking the University for help. With an eye to recent tuition and room rent rises, and a steadily increasing cost scale, the Faculty Committee on Student Activities has decided that now is not the time to begin subsidies to student organizations...