Word: central
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...country. "The pride of the University is involved, and we will not drop this policy," Tucker states. Here, however, is another area in which board rates might possibly be cut. Why should Harvard stand in splendid isolation by serving seconds on meat? To serve 2,200 dinners, the Central Kitchen will usually order about 2,000 pounds of meat. Without additional servings, the amount purchased might be cut by as much as 15 per cent--with a corresponding reduction in rates. On the other hand, the quality of food might be upgraded...
...pleas of the Masters will delay the day of standardization only slightly. A single menu would be a logical extension of the controlling web which penetrates all parts of the Dining Hall system. All menus--from the Central Kitchen, the Union, Dunster, Adams, Harkness, Kresge, etc.--must be approved by the Department. Purchasing for every kitchen is handled by a single agency, which commands lower prices through its bulk purchases. And most important, the Dining Hall Department is pressing an all-out effort to combat the "psychological" statement that the food differs from one kitchen to another. "Exactly the same...
...courage to invest regularly in blue chips all during the Depression and since could hardly have escaped making a fortune. Last week, to thousands of curious investors, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith proved this in a booth in Manhattan's Grand Central Station. There a whirring IBM Cardatype accounting machine figured what would have happened had an investor put an average $500 a year into a stock every year since 1929-about $15,500 in all. Had he bought Alcoa, his shares would be worth $115,850, and he would have pocketed $17,158 in cash dividends-a paper...
...blocks is being cleared. A restaurant and steam-heated offices have been set up for U.S. officials and engineers who are converging on the site. On its way from Texas to Russia this week is a huge, 200-ft. gold-anodized geodesic dome to crown the exhibition's central building, a 30,000-sq.ft hall that will accommodate 5,000 visitors an hour. Russian name for the U.S. exhibition: Ugolok Ameriki, or "A Corner of America...
...Perfect Furlough. A frozen Army outpost in the Arctic, with central heating by Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, makes a floe of comic clich...