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...year period from 1930 to 1940 showed a drop in Greek and Latin students. In 1930, there were 415 taking classics courses out of 3240, while, ten years later, an enrollment of almost 4,000 showed 384 in the courses. Despite the shift in emphasis to the natural sciences during the war, Latin and Greek boasted 204 students of a 2,475 enrollment...
Included in Lamar's changes on the Crimson lineup is a shift of powerful Ed Davis, backbone of the Cantabs' line, from guard to tackle, to replace Bill Sweeney. Filling in at Davis's guard position will be Mal Allen, B team player last term. At center, in place of Jim Crane, is Vic Vicario, who was on the Varsity last year...
...real breakthrough of American Armies in Germany might shift substantial quantities of U.S. voters to Dewey. An end to the war, even if it happened as late as Nov. 6, might be just about enough to send Dewey to the White House...
...that agricultural prices may decline, hourly wages and salaries and corporate profits will remain about the same, that there will be an increase in the number of employed over 1940, but that the income of wage & salary workers will be drastically cut because of the elimination of overtime, the shift to lower-paying jobs, etc. Likewise, the small businessmen and professional men will see their income drop about 20%. Totting up, Mayer then sets the postwar national income at $123 billion. Furthermore the "percentage increase in 1947 over 1940 in real per capita income would be between...
...Shift more of the burden of financing the federal Government onto the individual income tax-that is, lighten corporation and excise taxes...