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...hard-scrabbling mine and mill town of Cannonsburg, Pa., where his father, Welsh-born John Llewellyn Price, worked as a roller in a tin mill when he wasn't striking for the old Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. When the men were out, the cupboard was bare, and Bill Price early began piecing out the family income by running errands and clerking nights in a store. At 16, when his father died suddenly, Bill had to go to work in earnest. He learned shorthand, earned $50 a month as a secretary by day, and by night...
...professor, Economist Duncan Black, happened to be investigating Mathematician Dodgson's theories in a political field-proportional representation. One day, in a cupboard of the Christ Church treasury, he came across "row upon row of green clothbound boxes, all neatly packed with envelopes." Inside were the meticulous records of Dodgson's entire ten-year curatorship. Apparently, not one of them had been opened since the day he retired...
...Americans have thought much about replenishing the cupboard of natural resources: "As a nation, we have always been more interested in sawmills than in seedlings." Timber is now being used up 40% faster than new stands are growing; in 1950, the nation used up 8% of its known petroleum reserves, 6% of its lead and iron ore. But absolute shortages, says the commission, "are not the threat in the materials problem . . . The threat lies in insidiously rising costs"-not just dollar costs, but "real" costs in terms of the man-hours and capital needed. For years, "these real costs have...
Lately, it seems, high-powered national charity drives have monopolized the undergraduate's attention and gobbled up all the money he sets aside for philanthropy. This has left the multitude of seminars, social agencies, and other student benefits as impoverished as Mother Hubbard's cupboard. To acquaint the Harvard student more fully with these struggling enterprises, and perhaps to divert his funds as well, the incoming Combined Charities committee has recommended limiting future drives to student organizations...
...Austerity. By then, Stafford Cripps was in a way the most powerful man in Britain. As Chancellor of the Exchequer and Minister for Economic Affairs, he ruled the cupboard, stomach and pocketbook of every Briton. Prim and trim, he peered coldly through half-moon glasses, wore a smile that looked like the result of a bite from a persimmon, seemed always to be telling fuel-short Britons to take cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that...