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What Dartmouth did to the Harvard lacrosse team Saturday the Crimson squad did to New Hampshire yesterday afternoon. The final score was 13 to 2; the victory was balm to the varsity, which had been hard hit by its Dartmouth defeat...
Aircraft. The balm of $46,563,685 in defense orders, said Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s Robert E. Gross, had turned his company's postwar deficits into a $5,310,151 profit for the first six months of 1948. To see it through the rest of the year, Lockheed had a $196,421,000 backlog, most of it in military orders...
Angel. The hard-pressed British film industry, aching from financial bruises despite the soothing balm of U.S. critics, got some help from the government. Because private investors have shied away from the industry, the Board of Trade set up a $20 million fund to lend to distribution companies and independent producers at low interest rates. The board hopes to step up film production enough so that British theaters can show British movies 45% of the time, thus meet the new quota regulations against U.S. films. Hod Royalty. With building trade wages at a record high, bricklayers in New York were...
...said that Stalin had always had the best ideas went the police power. It was pure balm to the aging dictator when Beria recalled that in the old days Stalin used to call Lenin "the mountain eagle," and that Lenin in return called Stalin "the fiery Colchian." The man who put that on paper was the man Stalin trusted. He who expressed the Leader's truth so baldly must be the Leader's chief hunter of heresy...
...came icy blasts that plunged all Europe into the misery of one of the worst winters it had known in years. This time the story was different. All winter long, while arctic gusts set the U.S. ashivering, strong west winds from the warm Atlantic bathed Europe in welcome balm. In France, where the weather was milder than it had been since 1921, the winter wheat last week was already standing six inches high. Parisian office workers were flocking to eat their lunches in sun-warmed parks, and tulip shoots stood two inches up from the rich, black loam...