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After a week of turmoil no one was prepared to say straight out why the semi-Asiatic, often inscrutable bear had lifted a warning lip at the lion. Guesses were a dime a dozen, but few fitted the known facts. Practically no one believed that Moscow had merely played another card in the complex game of Poland's postwar frontiers. Pravda's bad-mannered belch clearly had some deep but hidden bearing on inter-Allied relations for war & peace...
...Black Future. For the job of running his company, Donald Douglas collects $120,000 salary a year, which he spends sparingly. Dividend-wise, the returns have not been rich, although the company has not lost a dime since it started. The best year was 1941, when net profits were a fat $18,177,000 after taxes on its gross...
...Whitney should be famed in the U.S. less for his cotton gin, on which he never made a dime (his landlady blabbed about it and it was copiously copied before he could make his patents stick), than for producing the world's first manufactured goods with interchangeable parts. When he assembled the scrambled parts of ten muskets before U.S. War Department brass hats, they were as startled as if a magician had conjured them up. Besides contributing to mass production, Whitney's revolutionary discovery also helped the U.S. kill the beginnings of the slavish apprentice system...
...offering odds as to who will relieve Fielding. The following quotations came hot off the back room board as we went to press; P. Bennett, 1 1/2 -2; J. Donegan 15-7 1/4; A. Murphy 2 1/4 -1/2; T. Sweeny 5 rubles to a dime; C. Collins 2 ib steel to an ounce of copper...
...this week, Kirkland House shot past Winthrop, its nearest competitor, in the topsy-turvy War Bond race. After that, it was rather a matter of cents rather than dollars that separated the Houses. Winthrop's $20.60 topped Adam's $19.80 contribution, while Leverett boasted a $16.80 total. A slim dime was the sole determinant between Dunster's $16.50 and Eliot's $16.40; while all House sales added to a 7 cent per capita hand-out throughout the College...