Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come from German home production. U.S. supplies fell behind by about 130,000 tons, and German supplies last week were about 200,000 tons short of their quota. The German failure was partly due to the severe winter, which had destroyed stocks and disrupted communications, but chiefly to the breakdown of the Germans' own food collection and distribution system...
Harvard's position as "trustee for the learned world" accounts for over one-third of its library costs and is twice as heavy a burden as supplying undergraduate book needs, according to a University breakdown of its annual $1,200,000 library bill...
...shadow, put a crippling psychological strain on Communism's enemies. Not all were driven as far as Giuseppe Rapelli, Christian Democratic Labor leader who tried to break Communist Giuseppe di Vittorio's iron grip on the labor unions, and is now in the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But all seem paralyzed to ineffectually, a prey to fear and doubt...
...breakdown of Little's approximate degree-candidate figures shows that 825 will graduate from the College. Four hundred A.M. degrees are to be conferred and 115 Ph.D.'s. Among other graduate schools, the Business School will send the most candidates--360--and the Engineering School and the Law School will send 178 and 137, respectively...
Still further breakdown of the Freshman response shows a considerable difference of interest between veterans and non-veterans with only two out of every five ex-servicemen doing any non-academic work as opposed to the five out of eight ratio recorded among their non-veteran counterparts...