Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Book Publishers Henry Holt & Co. A set costs $50, whether French or Hindustani; mass sales of the Big Four (Spanish, French, German, Russian) make up losses on more exotic items. Royalties go to the Linguistic Society, which last week was planning the conquest of eight more languages to add to the 20* originally ordered by the Army...
...these courses, students should be allowed to substitute part-time jobs under supervision-in department stores, drugstores, etc. (Says Studebaker: "The youth adjusted to life is adjusted to his job. . . .") High schools should add courses in homemaking and job-hunting...
...nation's problem, said Wilson, was fundamentally "to produce more"-but not at all costs. "Any attempt to raise wage rates faster than the actual increase in hourly productivity," he said, "will only add to further inflation." Rationing and price controls would not increase the supply of goods. They "tend to reduce production" in some lines. The only answer, Wilson declared, was to abolish the 40-hour week, "a heritage of the days of planned scarcity. All of us," said he, "must work longer and harder if we are to achieve the postwar standard of living that we dreamed...
...year in which lovers of history and biography could add a few books to their libraries, but good fiction, poetry and criticism were even rarer than in arid 1946. There was no U.S. novel as good as last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning All the King's Men, no new poet as gifted as Robert Lowell, whose Lord Weary's Castle had also won a Pulitzer Prize. Many publishers said frankly that they couldn't take chances with untried talent: their production costs were 75% higher than in 1941, and they needed surefire books. Quality, which...
Tufts, of course, takes these informal meets as if seasonal success rides with every stride, and the Boston papers generally add up the points. Informal meets, however, are not entered in the official Crimson track records...