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While results of the Service Fund drive were not completely tabulated, the campaign seemed certain to fall short by at least $9,000 of the $25,000 target. Even though further contributions were expected to dribble in to meet this exigency, the Council voted (1) to curtail sharply grants to charities, (2) to economize on projected Council work, and (3) to reduce the number of Harvard National Student Association delegates to the national convention at Madison, Wisconsin, next summer...
...correspondents): "Will the Soviet Union [agree] to curtail the use of the veto...
...make other little donations to the University-libraries, scholarships, and dollars in the amount of several score millions. Without the contributions of Alumni to the University coffers, Harvard could hardly have reached its present status, and were the golden flow suddenly quenched, the University would find it necessary to curtail many of its most valuable activities...
U.S.C.C. has tried to curtail silk imports into the U.S., but General MacArthur has insisted that it is up to U.S.C.C. to solve the problem of selling it. As one way, U.S.C.C. and the International Silk Guild plan to spend nearly $1,000,000 in an advertising campaign intended to regain silk's lost prestige with American women. This should help. But drastically lowered prices, barred until the end of the year, may be the only way to move the stockpile. Then the bottom may drop out of the retail price of silk goods...
...G.O.P. congressional axmen, branding their appropriation cuts as false economies: "If the foundation of your house needs repair, or if the roof leaks, you know that you are wasting money, not saving it, by failing to make that repair." He put in this category Republican slashes which would curtail reclamation and soil-conservation projects, and force reduction in the number of customs and border guards, tax auditors and labor conciliators...