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...dwindling steadily. That would not have been alarming if the coal was distributed properly, but it was not. A prize batch, 10 million tons, was piled in the idle steel industry's bins. The New York Central R.R. lopped 89 steam-powered trains from its schedule, had to cancel another 57 next day when the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered all railroads with low coal supplies to cut steam-locomotive passenger runs by 25%. "By the end of this week or next," said a U.S. Government coal expert, "we will be in damn bad shape unless something gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Squeeze | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Association, presided over by Joseph P. Spang, Jr. '15, donated the sum to the band this summer when they were seeking funds to travel to Stanford for the football opener. When last minute difficulties forced the band to cancel their trip, the Association permitted them to keep their contribution, a portion of which had already been spent for organizational expenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Makes Surprise Visit to Boston Party | 10/28/1949 | See Source »

...hand him their petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing him that her husband had treated her shabbily and intended to marry again. Would the Prime Minister, from the speaker's platform, ask her husband to cancel his marriage and mend his ways? Regretfully, Nehru refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Anchor for Asia | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...many of the new prices would not be anywhere near that low, and some would not change at all. Scotch distillers, who were already selling as much whiskey to the U.S. as they could make (3,000,000 cases a year), promptly upped their export prices 30% to cancel out the entire slash in the pound. Many another British maker of goods with a steady U.S. demand upped his prices anywhere from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Bargain Sale | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

Because one of its players has contracted a "mild" case of infantile paralysis, Yale yesterday called off Saturday's varsity football game with Fordham and indicated that it may have to cancel next week's Columbia game as well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Case of Polio Cancels Yale Grid Contest | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

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