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...city there was already a shortage of skilled technicians; the U.S. Employment Service huddled with state officials to find ways of easing the manpower squeeze. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production shot up to an estimated 204 for August, highest since July 1945 and a five-point rise in a month. Prices were creeping up, too. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the month ended July 15 its cost-of-living index rose 1.4% to 172.5, highest since October...
Cornell grabbed a five-point lead early in the game but some aggressive defensive work by Bill Hickey and Cliff Crosby, coupled with the rebound play of Ed Smith and Captain Bill Prior, checked the Big Red spurt. Except for the lapse in the last few minutes, the varsity's defense was fairly tight, forcing Cornell to the outside, but at the expense of 22 fouls, on which the winners collected 17 points...
Smyly was unbeatable in the 100-yard free. Fox took second and Norm Watkins third, but Army now held a five-point margin. The Crimson seized the lead for the only time in the meet with a sweep of the 150-yard backstroke by the steadily improving John Steinhart and Tom Woods. The winning time...
Tufts got away to a four-point lead with two baskets early in the game, but Harvard took the lead in the middle of the first period. After that, the game was never close, the Crimson expanding a five-point half-time lead into a runaway in the closing minutes...
Major subject on the Universalist agenda was the perennial plan for merger with the Unitarians, who were also feeling cramped by Christian creeds. In the current issue of the Unitarian Christian Register, 127 Unitarian ministers of New England endorsed a five-point statement of faith. Said the Rev. Dilworth Lupton of Waltham, Mass.: "Behind the statement is our conviction that religion resembles art; it is bigger than any of its manifestations. And the conviction, too, that our Unitarian churches should be fellowships where, as in art centers, people holding various theories could come together for common enrichment...