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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crystalline thiamin, which is vitamin BI, together with iron and nicotinic acid, will be generally restored to white flour by millers this month. Cost: two-tenths of a cent per pound loaf. The British Government ordered thiamin into bakers' recipes in July 1940. But Britons eat much more bread than Americans, get a more useful dose of B1 to buck up their war-strained health...
...month and those of undergraduates from $10 to $20, the average is about $21 for graduates and $13 or $14 for College students. Each institution is given funds which amount to $15 a month for every student under the N.Y.A. and which provide for 10 per cent of all the students. Therefore, if one graduate student makes $25 in a month, it is necessary for three undergraduates to make less than $12 a month in order to keep the average...
...States have joined the humanitarian line-up. The Amendment has been fought all along the way by the propaganda and high-pressure lobbying of powerful interest groups. But a nation-wide poll conducted in 1937 gives a majority for the Amendment in every State, and a 76 per cent majority in favor for the country as a whole. It is time that this sentiment be translated into action...
This fight is nothing that Santa Claus brought with him last Christmas. The networks have been cursing under their breath at ASCAP since 1932, but a few months ago they balked out loud at a demand for five per cent of the broadcasters' commercial business. ASCAP, they said, was charging unfair flat rates. It was paying eighty per cent of the writers' incomes to twenty per cent of the writers. It was a union. It was a monopoly. It was a new kind of musical big bad wolf. But hadn't the broadcasters' revenue doubled? Hadn't they sunk...
...more revolutionary finding is that the number of men on the Dean's List has leaped from 20 per cent in 1920 to a new high of 30 per cent in 1940. If this intellectual acceleration is maintained for 140 years, by 2080 A.D., obviously, everybody in Harvard College will be on the Dean's List...