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...intended to use the reports--with a complicated formula--to adjust the veteran's leave time and to dock him if he used more than the 30 days allowed, including Christmas, spring, and between-terms recesses...
...will be sponsored by the International Refugee Organization; at least 30,000 will be immigrants paying their own way. By last month 9,000 had arrived; last week the S.S. Santa Cruz brought 1,200 more; this week the U.S. Army's S.S. General S. D. Sturgis will dock with 850. Next year's goal is 100,000; within five to ten years, predicts Julio Grooscors, head of Venezuela's Institute of Immigration & Colonization, the country's population will double...
...Seine river, which fed it, was diverted by digging away 2,000,000 cubic yards of earth and rock for a new channel, and by constructing a system of dams and tunnels. The Canadian Government chipped in $5,200,000 for roads, a railway spur, power lines and a dock at Port Arthur to handle the ore. In 1944, a year after work was started, the first ore came out of the open pits...
...Randolph Churchill's phrase for the execution of the top Nazis. Winston's far-flinging lecturer-son was now talking in Australia. "They were not hanged for starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin in the dock?" But he was not afraid of the Russians, said Randolph. "The people who scare me are the British and Americans, who . . . are now letting all they won slip through their butter-fingers...
...Friday evening 176 men had checked in end beds, both single and double-dock, covered on-third to the gym floor and field both the balconies. College housing authorities are now preparing to find permanent quarters for the overflow as quickly as possible...