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Expanded for peacetime service are the Library Committee, which has rigorously undertaken to restock its shelves for an expected increased volume of requests in the fall term, and the undergraduate faculty group which teaches classes at the PBH and 39 settlement houses throughout Boston and Cambridge...
...Stamford's historic Atlantic Square, amid modern store fronts and movie marquees, a granite slab marks the ground where, 305 years ago, "Twentynine men and their families . . . imbued with the spirit of the founders of New England . . . made a permanent and enduring settlement of landowners and freemen...
...appeared, stock prices fell 5½ points, the sharpest break since the British debacle at Dunkirk in 1940. By midweek the Dow-Jones industrial average had slipped to 192.38, wiping out the gains of two months. Cause of the break: stock buyers who had been betting that settlement of the steel strike would bring inflationary price raises had changed their minds...
Pickets tore up their signs, threw the scraps in the air, went off to celebrate a settlement that meant about $32 more a month in each man's pay envelope. In Homestead, Pa., smokeless for 26 days, they quickly made some smoke by burning their strike placards, accidentally setting their picket shack afire...
...week's end, as steelworkers heated up ovens, furnaces and pits, the strike skies were clearing fast. Negotiations with General Motors, which had been broken off in an outburst of union bitterness, were close to the settlement point. The month-old strike of 175,000 electrical workers at General Electric and Westinghouse seemed to be running...