Word: feds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fall the basement of Memorial Hall is a beehive of activity as 50 workmen and scientists turn the musty storeroom of the Thirties and the kitchen that fed half a century of Harvard men into one of the most modern and complete psychological laboratories in existence...
...musty old caverns into modernistic, glass bricked offices and halls. Where once NROTC students disassembled artillery pieces and fired on the small rifle range, office, shops, conference rooms and an animal room for white rats, are being marked off with cement blocks and plaster. The old kitchen, which fed over a thousand college men a day, from 1874 to the late Twenties, when the now gloomy home of final examinations was the College Commons, is now turning into psychology library, an undergraduate laboratory and a lecture room seating 100 students...
...People will only stand for controls when things aren't going well," Professor Harris said. "In addition, this election reflects a general dissatisfaction with the treatment of post-war economic problems by the Administration. The American public, however, is certainly not fed up with planning for good. If the Republicans win in 1948, and if we have another serious depression in the early 1950's we'll have another period of planning--in fact the largest ever on a peace-time scale...
Soviet Zone v. Soviet Union. Even so, eastern Germany will be better off than western Russia. Foreign and Soviet observers who have recently reached Berlin from various parts of the U.S.S.R. unanimously agree that the average German in the Soviet zone is better fed, better dressed, and better housed than the average Russian in Moscow, Sverdlovsk or Leningrad. He is incomparably better off than the average citizen of devastated Ukraine and Byelorussia...
...Halifax, got close to the earth in Iowa. A farm boy who had met him in Washington invited him out home some time; the Ambassador took him up on it. For three days he bunked (in the downstairs bedroom) at a farm outside Eagle Grove, rode tractors, weeded strawberries, fed on meat and potatoes and vegetables and pie, dried the dishes. After he left for Washington, the Eagle Grove Eagle came out with the first extra in its history, ran six pictures of him in four pages...