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...built to accommodate. Each House has a large number of "members" for whom there is no place in the House. Upperclass students have backed up into the Yard. They fill not only the Houses and Claverly Hall, but now also the Freshmen's Wigglesworth Hall. There is an immense backlog of building need here to be met. One House immediately, two more as quickly as they can be had, and, as well, increased dormitory space for Freshmen, are required to resolve this critical situation. In my judgment these are minimum requirements if we are to return to the best educational...
Missing Millions. As nearly as worried U.S. exporters could piece together the increasingly vague official figures, the amount of imports moved closer to the amount of exports. But Colombia's reserves, ominously, did not reflect the improvement; instead they dropped to a thin-ice $91 million, while the backlog kept growing...
...leaders were aircraft companies and steel. On the New York Stock Exchange, U.S. Steel, Jones & Laughlin, Republic Steel, Crucible Steel and Allegheny Ludlum sold at new highs as mills pushed up to 98% of capacity and the backlog of steel orders assured peak operations for months to come...
...actually poor and plugging. As things got harder he made his acting look easier. "Everything was always difficult for me," he says gloomily, and then brightens: "It's unfortunate that more American actors don't get that kind of experience. It's a marvelous backlog for you to learn the hard...
...prophets have been caught with the seat of their pants down. As late as 1945 and 1946, most business analysts insisted that World War 11, like every other major conflict since Napoleon's day, would be followed by a depression. They failed to take into account the huge backlog of buying power behind bottled-up wartime shortages. Many of them underestimated the 1953 boom; many oversold the 1954 recession. Even in January 1955, as the U.S. hummed into an alltime record year, eight economists at a congressional hearing foresaw only a slight pickup from 1954. At the start...