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...Cushion for Casualties. Yet soon or late, and probably soon, more concentration will be on the way. To carry it out much will depend on the good sense of the Government and the small businessman himself. For the latter the hardest lesson of all is that though he is fighting for his life, so after all is his country. For Government the biggest problem is to provide some means of compensation, without engaging in monumental subsidies, so that businesses which are squeezed out now can reappear later. Best notion yet advanced is Donald Nelson's recommendation to Congress last...
Brown plans to have practices in the Indoor Athletic Building every night until the end of the fall sports season, when workouts will be in the afternoon. Only 23 sessions altogether form the cushion before the first game, with M. I. T. on December 4. Four local games then precede the usual midwestern trip, before Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League games start after vacation...
...pieces of scrap rubber. You'll be surprised how much turns up once you get going. A few pieces of rubber tubing from a chemistry course, a pair of sneakers worn out by four-days-a-week physical training, a used bicycle tire, a rubber seat cushion, an out-of-style rubberized raincoat-there is no end to the number of articles that will come to the surface. It's worth taking two minutes of your time to look over your room. And the Square is crowded with gas stations-you won't have far to walk...
...British refused to freeze their production, have thus kept quality high, can continue improving design on the cushion of U.S. production...
...Army was inducting 300,000 men a month. The fat layer of good U.S. manpower was melting fast. A 'teenage draft would cushion the oldsters against military service for a time at least...