Word: cards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without actually handling the tomes, the AVC maintains a card file of volumes offered for sale by students who have no further use for them. Men desiring books need only come to the AVC office in Phillips Brooks House between ten and four o'clock daily, or phone the organization at Kirkland 2486, to find who has the volumes they desire...
Twelve months ago, in a dry-cold span of four days, the College was reborn. Better than 1300 men filed, passively for the most part--for they were predominantly veterans and long since line-calloused--through Memorial Hall. In University Hall the 1300 became holes in a card, names which doubled the population of the College. Four months later 900, and five months ago another 2500, worried, distended, made sweat the Administration...
Without actually handling the tomes, the AVC maintains a card file of volumes offered for sale by student's who have no further use for them. Men desiring books need only come to the AVC office in Phillips Brooks House between ten and four o'clock daily, or phone the organization at Kirkland 2486, to find who has the volumes they desire...
While most of the paper work is being handled by the University veterans office, former servicemen will have to fill out a Form 1950 to get tuition aid and subsistence payments, an address card to have service records sent to the local V.A. office, and a card entitling the holder to purchase books at government expense. Married veterans will have to present a suitable copy of their marriage certificates to obtain the additional subsistence they are entitled...
...permitted its pet party, the Communist-run SED, to blurt out an announcement of a Russian new deal in the Soviet zone. Some of the promises: reduction in reparations from current production; a 200-300% increase of the zone's industrial level; abolition of the lowest ("starvation") ration card. Meanwhile, the Russians also appeared to be softening somewhat (at least on the surface) in London...