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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straus Hall, dedicated to Isador J. Straus, "loving husband and father; thoughtful doer of kind acts every day" employs a staff of ten workers, including the three who served in the Phillips Brooks House office, and has assumed under its control the PBH file of 500 apartment hunting applicants...
Things have gone better than they might have because we reorganized our military subscribers' files. Early in the war it became apparent that our system of indexing civilian subscriptions would not do for the wandering U.S. Army & Navy. Like most national publishers, TIME had only one way of listing subscribers: geographically. No change could be made, therefore, without first looking up the subscriber's old address in the geographical file. But the armed forces, for reasons of military security, refused to let servicemen give their new addresses until they had arrived at them. When they did, and could...
...harassed Subscription Department took on the huge job of setting up and maintaining an alphabetical, as well as a geographical file for our military subscribers. That way, presumably, we could find their addresses whether they were on duty in this country or overseas, en route, or back home...
...merger of their parties. Without it, the Communists stood a poor chance at the polls. The Soviet-zone press failed to report that the Social Democrats had set conditions: both parties must be organized on a national scale and the merger approved by majority vote of the Socialist rank & file. The Socialists did not want to repeat the fatal rivalry of the 19205; but they obviously sought to evade Russian pressure for an outright merger's kiss of death...
...time circuits.* Almost 90% of all U.S. race horses run as claimers; in all claiming races owners risk having their nags bought out from under them, whether they want to sell or not. All Lipiec (or any other trainer) has to do before a race is to file a claim for a particular horse and deposit the money. After the race, he takes the horse...