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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owners to pay Harvard $666.66 (200 pounds) annually for 70 years, and when the second bridge was built in 1796, the College received a similar sum from it for 40 years. The College later created two capital funds out of accumulated income from one of the bridges, and those add up to the $18,000 on the books today. One of the funds is used for scholarships, the other for faculty salaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...bibles; both had a pious regard for the value (and news value) of a dollar. Each had valuable commodity market services and news which the other could use. United, they could afford a bigger network of correspondents, could exchange their news by direct wire. And a merger would add a strong Chicago outpost to the Ridder radio and newspaper empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Can Live Cheaper ... | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...survivors. But the Civil Aeronautics Board had seen enough to order the magnesium emergency landing flares taken out of all DC-6s-a step the lines themselves had long advocated. In the second fire, the airliner may have been saved by the fact that it had no flares to add to the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Grounded | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Much of what began as a wild, free upswell of talent, testing new forms and themes, has settled into an orthodox and predictable rut. These spearheaders did add a kind of undisciplined virility to U.S. letters, but most of them now seem to be acquiring literary paunches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Free Wheels in the Groove | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...full season of searching for the requisite talent. Ends John Setear and Dick Jenkins, who have between them caught 41 aerials, are capable although lacking in the pass-catching finesse of Jack Roderick, who like Captain Vince Moravec is out for the year. Captain Cotty Davison and Westi Hansen add up to 421 pounds of tackles, but the power of the line lies in John Prchlik and Vic Frank at guards and Bill Conway in the center spot...

Author: By Oliver Brooks, SPORTS EDITOR, YALE DAILY NEWS | Title: Rueful Bulldog Coaches Call Crimson Tilt Toss-Up | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

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