Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only fair way to evaluate the success of a project like the Purchase Card is in terms of the aims and the plans of the group behind it. The primary job of the NSA Purchase Card committee at Harvard this year was, in conjunction with the other NSA colleges in the Boston Area, to put into operation a working Purchase Card System. Harvard's committee was selected to head this operation. If we take a look at the results of the first few months of the PCS in Boston we can see that a successful, working system has been...
...nervous University policeman intervened at this point, enjoined the student from hosing, and lifted his bursar's card as a warning to the mob not to let the antics get out of hand...
...which are planned down to the last menu. To handle transportation, Felix Roma has chartered seven ships and three Constellation airliners. The overall price from the U.S. (including a $1,500 insurance policy): $648 by sea and $798 by air. Catholics get first call on accommodations, must present a card from their parishes certifying their church membership...
Perhaps the most important reason for the current failure of the plan is the limited range of participating stores in the area of the Square. The success of the Purchase Card depends upon its local showing; the present nine member stores around the Square form a good nucleus, but the variety of goods, services, and price levels they cover is not wide enough to make the plan sell. In the minds of many students, the present Purchase Card System is merely an ineffective duplication of the Coop...
...System, however, is not dead yet. It simply hasn't had a chance. Given effective publicity and a mammoth card-selling campaign next fall, together with the recruiting of many more local stores, there is a good possibility that the Purchase Card System will revive and bloom. Otherwise, it will expire, . . . and soon...