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...Although manufacturers still had their customers on quotas, allotments have been upped. Prices were still steady. Many of the orders placed last week were at OPA ceilings. But many a buyer predicted a wholesale price boost of 15 to 20% within 60 to 90 days. If retailers expected to absorb this expected boost, they were saying nothing about...
Observes Columbia's Law Dean Young B. Smith, eyeing the G.I. Bill of Rights uneasily: "A university is under the obligation to give general education to as many as possible, but the professional schools ought not to train more than the profession can absorb. [A glut of lawyers] creates unemployment and frustrated desires. . . . It would be mistaken patriotism to train too many. . . . A disappointed lawyer is just smart enough to make trouble for everybody. He is likely to become a sourbelly and a revolutionary...
Automobile price ceilings were boosted again last week, for the third time in six months, to absorb the increase in steel prices. For 16 makes of autos the OPA announced new ceilings, averaging 4% to 8% higher than previous ones. None of the increase will be absorbed by dealers. The new f.o.b. prices, all for the popular four-door sedans, are: Dodge DeLuxe, $1,176; De Soto DeLuxe, $1,251; Chrysler Royal, $1,353; Pontiac Six, $1,127; Oldsmobile, $1,163; Buick, $1,250; Cadillac, $1,794; Nash, $1,119; Packard Six, $1,510; Hudson, $1,257; Lincoln...
...meet demands for an 18½? boost. The present 12?-a-lb. copper ceiling price, they maintained, was too low to meet these demands. To take care of this, OPA is expected to announce a boost in the copper ceiling price to 14.32? this week-enough, it hopes, to absorb the wage boost and increased costs. Even after copper mining resumes, at least 90 days will elapse before copper reaches manufacturers...
Since the instructor is essentially the foundation on which the tutorial system rests, any question of a sufficiency or insufficiency of funds, or of the ability of some students to absorb anything from the tutorial method, is de trop without first a thorough overhauling of the guiding standards of the ad hoc committee. Unless a higher premium is placed on good teaching, the tutorial system can only continue to dissatisfy an increasing number of students and Faculty...