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While this rise & fall in employment is typical of what will happen in thousands of U.S. plants, not typical is the way the company has dodged the horrific bugaboo now raising the hackles of U.S. businessmen-reconversion cost. The Government will foot the bill (standard practice when it leases a plant). With equal ease, the company will dodge smaller bugaboos. It need not scramble for equipment (WPB will see to that), nor fear that some other company will grab its market while it is reconverting...
Typical of the problems was that perennial college bugaboo, the food situation. On display is a paper, dated 1778, which authorizes the Faculty to send a Sophomore to Connecticut on a flour buying expedition, lest the College disband for lack of victuals. Then there is a letter to the College Butler commanding him to cease selling fire water to students since the price had risen too high...
Coaches Wade and Neyland finally managed to get 130 onetime players assigned to football detail. Standouts among the Eastern squad are Corporal Norman Standlee (fullback terror of Stanford's famed T formation and more recently the bugaboo of the big bad Chicago Bears), Lieut. Harold Van Every (one of Minnesota's slickest broken-field runners and later star of the monstrous Green Bay Packers) and Corporal George Cafego (tailback on Tennessee's recent wonder team). The Western Lineup boasts Lieut. John Kimbrough (Texas Aggies' 220-lb. fullback who got $9,000 for six pro games last...
...view of this question, and his estimate of the socialist trend of the New Deal, it is strange that Author de Sales should charge U.S. conservatives with having a "psychosis" about the future. A psychosis is a mental bugaboo. What De Sales describes is very real. It will continue to be real until he finds a better word than "collectivism" to describe what he means by full use of resources. Most Americans, who think collectivism means socialism and who know that socialism leads to tyranny, will reject the dilemma as he states it. Nor can he sell them...
...Bugaboo of college basketball teams this year is not Purdue, Indiana or Wisconsin, but a team of sailors from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Last week, before 5,000 screaming trainees who packed the Station's brand-new drill hall, they swamped Northwestern, 47-to-38, for their 14th victory in 16 starts...