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...Harvard is something like the automobile market. Our best model--full residency--sells for around $2750, and our least expensive model--living at home--comes to only $1800. Between the extremes, we now offer residency in Apley Court or Wigglesworth (with no board charge) for $2500, and living in the Cooperative House (with a mild work requirement...
Brown-haired, blue-eyed John Laboon is a tall man for a submarine-6 ft. 5½ in. But the subs are what he picked when he graduated from Annapolis in 1943, and he fought the war in a slightly stooped position on board the Peto, was awarded a Silver Star for "gallantry and intrepidity in action" off Japan when he swam through the shelling of shore batteries to rescue a downed airman...
Vice Chairman C. Canby Balderston of the Federal Reserve Board warned the Philadelphia Bond Club that industrial prices have risen 2% since the recession low, sooner and more sharply than after the two last recessions, despite continued high unemployment and unused industrial capacity. The upsetting fact about this, said Balderston, is that the price level did not dip during the recession, perhaps because the downturn was so short. "The recent advances are piled on top of a level that never dropped down. When prices fail to decline during a recession, then they are in position to contribute to inflation during...
...Morgan-Guaranty Trust merger got final approval from Federal Reserve Board. New bank is fourth largest in U.S., has resources of more than $4 billion, capital funds of more than $500 million...
...decree stick, and the hard-drinking prospectors, dregs of all nations, begin to talk about a revolt. When the posturing troop commander decides to execute one of his corporals for picking up some gems, a nightmarish wave of violence washes over the filthy mining town. Six people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest, another a former German army captain, who subsists mainly on the bitterness of his country's defeat. There is a French Jew at the end of his rope, a money-adoring Belgian, who is accompanied...