Word: frees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honor of the Bowlfest and the accompanying stream of displaced Harvard men, a special gridiron edition of the CRIMSON will be distributed free at key points in New Haven. After 9 a.m., copies will be distributed at the Yale Station, all Dining Halls, main entrances to the Old Campus, and the railroad station...
Dean Bender last night said that he believed the new committee's investigation would be valuable in showing how well the educational aims of the College are being fulfilled in practice. The official goals as expressed in General Education in a Free Society are "highly technical," he said, "and this survey might show how well they are being reached...
...world's biggest gold buyer, the argument continued, the U.S. should raise its buying price to about $50 an ounce. Failing that, it should declare a free market in gold, i.e., drop the ban against citizens' buying, selling or owning gold, and cancel the requirement that miners sell only to the Federal Government. Producers confidently felt that freeing gold would boost the price, since it is now selling for as high as $70 an ounce in the free gold marts of India, China, France and more than a dozen other nations...
Sound & Fury. For all their persuasive details, such arguments were built on shaky economic ground. Were gold miners entitled to a raise? Since 1927 the price of gold has gone up 69%, while wholesale prices in general have risen only 60%. Actually, a free market would not change the price unless the U.S. raised its official price also, because the Treasury is required by law to keep gold at $35 an ounce. While a gold boost would give Britain and other U.S. allies a modest profit on their gold holdings, the greatest beneficiary might be Russia, probably the world...
When he opened the world's biggest drugstore in Hollywood two years ago, Rexall Drug, Inc.'s President Justin Whitlock Dart threw a $90,000 party complete with film stars, searchlights and 10,000 free orchids. To Justin Dart, onetime tackle at Northwestern University, the celebration was the booming kickoff to the Rexall team's postwar expansion program. But by last week many a stockholder had begun to wonder why Rexall had not followed up with a few smashing plays...