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Wisconsin quartered 1,866 veterans in a powder plant 35 miles from the campus, 1,660 more at an Army airfield. Columbia established a "trailer campus," charging veterans for parking space but not for rent. At Rhode Island State, 28 Quonsets on Vet Row were jammed, eleven students to a hut. The president of Ohio's Marietta College took in boarders. Some hardy students at U.C.L.A. slept in all-night movies and parked cars...
...Fires of Envy. The Imam's intense isolationism had at last been overcome by his avarice. A king who pays his chief of staff $153 month and his soldiers $2 could scarcely ignore the new $4 to $6 million airfield at Dhahran in the rival neighboring kingdom of Saudi Arabia, or the $6 million a year that blear-eyed Ibn Saud gets from U.S. petroleum concessions. Yahya's Yemen has no oil with which to bargain in the bazaars of international high finance, but it is strategically located near the foot of the Red Sea, across the Arabian...
Next spring the company will punch a $70 million railway line from Seven Islands on the St. Lawrence northward along the Moisie River. This will provide a lifeline to Ungava, will cut shipping costs on materials to build a townsite and possibly an airfield. The company's chief handicap: Ungava's early freeze-up and late thaw limit mining operations to about three months a year...
...runways and revetments of the Stillwater, Okla. airfield were crowded with 475 surplus bombers and fighters which once cost the U.S. $117,000,000. In Oklahoma City this week, chunky, cigar-smoking Paul Mantz of Los Angeles bought this mighty air armada, which included 228 Liberators and 78 Flying Fortresses. The price...
Indonesian extremists vainly assaulted the airfield at Batavia. At Ambarawa they laid down a barrage with captured Japanese 75s; the British retaliated with air strikes...