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Many other fox breeders, including his brother-in-law, had switched their farms to mink, but Nieman did not think the shift worthwhile. Though mink are cheaper to raise (their feed costs from $10 to $14 a year), Herb Nieman thinks that mink will soon be overproduced, too. And mink raisers, who were getting as little as $11 a pelt (as against $20 last year), were wondering whether they will meet costs...
Working with Conley at Filene's are a BU student who takes the morning shift in the gift department, using the same uniform and pillow as Conley, and a 300 pound man in the window who uses no pillow...
...late fall of 1942, the entire German Sixth Army, which in the summer months of the same year had pushed its way across the Don and into the industrial city of Stalingrad on the Volga, was cut off from its Army Group and left to shift for itself 300,000 men deep inside the Russian front, supplied inefficiently by air and gradually being killed among the snow-covered steppes and hills and the shattered remains of the city...
Crimson trackmen will shift gears this week from the pre-season fundamentals to the more exacting task of preparing for the first indoor meet of the winter season, the Rhode Island Relays on December 9. Both Varsity and Freshman one-mile and two-mile relay teams will participate...
...Lodge Plan would correct the two major evils of the present system. Large states now have exaggerated importance in an election, since in these states a difference of a few thousand votes can shift huge stacks of electoral votes from one column to the other. Twice since the Civil War this has meant that the man with a majority of popular votes has lost the election. Tilden beat Hayes by over 200,000 votes in 1876; yet he lost. Cleveland beat Harrison by over 100,000 votes in 1888; yet he lost. And in the 1948 election a few more...