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...business within the University. During the last fiscal year, the Dining Hall Department spent $3,576,547--but less than half of this amount went directly to wholesale grocers. In fact, the Department spends only 44.3 per cent of its annual budget on the 31,000 pounds of flour or the 60,000 quarts of milk used monthly in its operations. If budget trimming can be practiced in the Department, it might start among the salaried workers. Wages account for 44.1 per cent of the Department's expenditures, and a reduction might make a drop in the board rate feasible...
...Peabody Coal Co. closed its mine a year ago and left 450 jobless, Miner Orville Gibson, 44, stays behind because he cannot afford to move his ten children. Hoping to find work in one of the smaller mines still operating, Gibson meanwhile feeds his family U.S. surplus rice, flour and cornmeal, gets clothes and shoes from the Baptist Church...
There is no water on the moon, so Gold's erosion cannot be like the kind that wears down earth's mountains. He thinks that the chief eroding agent is high-energy radiation from the sun helped by cosmic rays and meteorites. They slowly chewed a flour-fine dust from the moon's exposed rocks and kept it stirred up so that it gradually flowed into low places like the interiors of old craters and the maria...
...hardly be heard last week in Red China's cities. Reason: city dwellers had just been told that, despite the talk of a record yield, their grain rations had been cut. A "very heavy worker" in Peking, who used to get the maximum of 20.6 lbs. of wheat flour a month, will now get only twelve. Similar cuts hit the smaller rations of white-collar workers, shopkeepers and children...
...limousine in front of the Tokyo palace of Crown Prince Akihito, it was all that the police could do to restrain the 8,000 cheering teen-agers from mobbing her. "Suteki! Suteki!" the teen-agers cried -"Glorious! Glorious! Our future Empress!'' Michiko Shoda, 24, daughter of a flour magnate, and the first commoner in at least 15 centuries to be betrothed to the heir to the Japanese throne, had come with her parents to pay a ceremonial call on the young prince. After the usual formalities, the prince's tutor delicately suggested that the older generation withdraw...