Word: april
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move designed to scare steelmen into making more steel. It also put out the welcome mat for such companies as Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co. Lone Star got its start with a $25 million war-surplus blast furnace which it bought in 1947 for $7,500,000 (TIME, April 7, 1947). Last week Lone Star's President Eugene B. Germany called on Truman to discuss an RFC loan to add a $61 million rolling mill to his plant...
...calendar solemnly listing the "Special Days, Weeks and Months in 1949," with which U.S. admen will woo consumers this year. From "Idaho Potato & Onion Week," which growers are plugging this week, through "Woo Woo-National Sweater Week" starting Sept. 26, there will hardly be a letup. The week of April 1, said the department with tongue-in-cheek, will be known as "National Leave Us Alone Week...
...committee rulings passed last night will allow one closed dance on any weekend, and provide that extra closed dances can be permitted by the House holding the open dances. The Spring schedule: February 26 Lowell March 5 Leverett March 12 Eliot March 19 Winthrop March 26 Dunster April 16 Kirkland April 23 Open April 30 Adams
...bill giving substantial aid to American education. The Democrats are pledged to such legislation, and President Truman has been championing it for some time. A considerable segment of the Republican party also favors educational aid appropriations--in fact, a bill sponsored by Senator Taft got through the Senate last April, and probably would have been passed in the House, if it had reached the floor before the summer adjournment...
...Last April a staff of ten women sent out 90,000 questionnaires to discover the current status of all graduates. Around 37,000 were returned and on this basis the old directory was revised...