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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other problems are influenced by pressures developed in this new threat? If this is the Russian tack, and many feel it is, the answer is much the same. For bargain-basement diplomacy signifies a mistrust of motive, an unwillingness to place confidence in a structure of good will and fill in the details according to principles agreed upon during...
Publication this week of the first number of the Harvard Library Bulletin will fill an important need in both of the University community and of "the scholarly world in general," according to George W. Cottrell, Jr. '26 editor of the new periodical...
...beginning, he had fetched far less: as a tyro with a Welsh burr, he had covered smoke-hall concerts in Brighton for 25 shillings a week. He got his fill of spot news and close calls in the Boxer Rebellion and the Russo-Japanese war. In his day he had run the Manila Times, worked for Hearst and Pulitzer and-luckily-for George Creel at the World War I Peace Conference. Lord Northcliffe, then in control of the London Times, hired him at Versailles for the Washington...
Even at these prices, boatbuilders claimed that they had more orders than they could fill, despite expanded production (Chris-Craft was operating five factories v. three before the war). But most manufacturers, still plagued by critical shortages of mahogany and other woods, had not yet made enough boats to test the size of the market. Said the sales manager of one big company: "Costs are still going up and prices will probably go up some more. In a luxury business like this the whole market could be swamped in two minutes by a slight change in economic conditions...
Designed to fill what the H. L. U. terms "a need for a serious magazine in the college," the 20-page publication replaces The Student Progressive, four-page Liberal Union magazine published since 1944. The new Progressive appeared for the first time in December as a special Chicago Conference flyer, and was distributed at the student meetings there...