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Sacred Idol. Was business the villain? Despite manufacturers' pleas of higher production costs, of less-than-full production, many companies showed lush profits for 1946 and the first quarter of 1947 (although many were operating on dangerously thin profit margins). Business had answered the President's plea for voluntary price reductions with piddling action to date. The C.I.O.'s Phil Murray accused industrialists of "actual racketeering" and "organized robbery...
...Related" fields include Anthropology 31, Philosophy 3, and Social Relations 52 and 58. Whatmough allows students a liberal amount of discretion in picking these courses, but warns that concentrators should "get one job done well" and not spread themselves too thin over courses that are not essentially linguistic...
...thin run proved to be the slender margin of victory in two close-fought intramural league baseball games yesterday, as the Dudley Commuters defeated Dunster House by a 7 to 6 margin, and Kirkland slid by Adams House...
...self-improvement. This fact will not forever be lost to advertisers. We have in recent times seen the decline of the supposedly eternal gag type of humor, and its slow replacement by the situation comedy of Morgan and Fred Allen. The quiz shows and soap operas are wearing thin in their turn. When sponsors do realize that the American's concern with his personal inadequacies is not limited to "cathartics and mouth-washes," and turn their shame-on-you technique to exposing airpockets in his education, we can expect a flood of adult programs...
...Keith was beaten so badly that two ribs broke. Yet she was the favorite of Camp Commander Colonel Suga, who had read and liked her Borneo book. When the first Allied planes came over Kuching, most of the prisoners were too weak to feel joy. Mrs. Keith, always thin, had lost 30 lbs. when the Australian ground troops took Kuching without a fight. Her six-foot husband came out weighing...