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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tennis and singles rowing will begin officially on Monday for all civillian undergraduates, Adolph W. Samborski, assistant director of Physical Education, announced yesterday. Major athletic credits will be given for participation in these two activities...
...will be a hollow gain unless the U.S. grants a preferential tariff on Philippine products. In prewar years the U.S. bought 82% of the Philippine exports, worth $256,000,000 a year. But a high tariff would cut this to a trickle, leave the Philippines to begin a search for new markets...
When Jean Renoir, the noted French director, left Hollywood recently to begin work in the reconstructed studios of Paris, he remarked that in America, "they go to the theatre to see people, not ideas." "Mr. Emmanuel," an expert British film of German atrocity, pays primary attention to people but gives ideas more than the passing nod that one generally finds in the art-starved cinema of the United States...
...Release of factories to produce nearly a third more goods for civilians within nine months, or sooner. (During this period enough metals would be released to begin the making of many an item Americans have not had in a long time, including automobiles...
...familiar phenomena of big captured towns in Germany: mile after mile of smashed industrial sections, of ruined homes, of buildings broken, and broken over & over again into brick dust. Then suddenly you are past the last stretch of rusted junk that used to be a railroad yard, and you begin winding over the superb wide roads that sweep into the German uplands beyond the Rhine...