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After that the battlefront settled down. Communiques late in the week told of sporadic raids, light action. The reports were only another version of the slogan of the 31st Infantry (see below). The slogan...
Same week, members of the National Retail Dry Goods Assn. gathered in Manhattan for their 31st annual meeting, 6,000 strong, to discuss wartime retail problems. They knew their record 1941 prosperity was not likely to last out 1942. They had been on a sort of spree themselves, selling the fat off a nation long pouchy with surpluses. Their 1942 problems: 1) to find enough goods to sell; 2) not to be caught overstocked by a reaction when hoarders go home sated, or when other consumers are kept home by higher prices and taxes...
Most of the courses are held in the evening. The tuition fees are $2.50 or $5.00. The program, now in its 31st year, is supported by the Lowell Institute of Boston and carries credit toward the degree of adjunct in arts at Harvard. The classes are held at Harvard and Boston University. Last year 1,435 men and women enrolled...
...that Peru "had been improving the truce." The truth is that Peru accepted the armistice under the double condition that guarantees be offered to Peruvian residents of Ecuador, and that a decree of the Quito Government referring to mobilization be revoked. This last condition was only fulfilled on the 31st of July at twelve noon, and at 6 p.m. of the same day the Peruvian troops ceased firing...
...Result: Jimmy got the jitters, was sent to the sidelines in the quarterfinals. In the 36-hole final, with the thermometer still hovering around 100°, chunky Bill Welch, a Houston toolmaker who studies law at night school, beat slim, bespectacled Jack Kerns, a Denver insurance clerk, on the 31st green...