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...Grind. The world's demand for Leicas proved greater than ever, despite the rise of formidable imitators abroad. Leitz stepped up employment to 5,000, production to 4,000 Leicas per month, 25% more than prewar, and its gross to $12.5 million. Leitz keeps many operations on a handwork basis simply to provide jobs. This, plus heavy taxes, has kept profits below prewar levels, but even so, Leitz made enough last year to finance a new $950,000 building at Wetzlar and the Canadian plant, which may expand Leitz's total capacity by 15%. At Midland, Leitz plans...
...bread than for something more than bread, and who are riot 1 ^o callous to love, but too burdened. If not successful, Sunday Breakfast is generally interesting and fitfully touching. One big difficulty is that it deals with a condition rather than a specific situation, and can only grind away at what is quickly apparent and largely unalterable. Themselves beset by their material, the authors get as overwrought as their characters; they lose perspective about something that, treated more casually, might seem more heartbreaking. But however uneven, Sunday Breakfast is at least not slick...
...only is it the last home regatta for Crimson crews but it is also the final race before the four-mile grind against Yale on June 20, and Love, with a two-and-two record so far this spring, must take this one to keep above 500 for the year...
...undertaken is mapped out by both students and the professor at the beginning of the year. This freedom imposes many responsibilities, but Bennington students meet them honestly. The Harvard undergraduate, with his often lackadaisical approach in required reading, would be against at the amount of work most Bennington girls grind out every evening. There are few distractions on weekdays. On week ends, the distraction embraces Williams men who roll into Bennington with their flashy convertibles and blond crew cuts. There is a good deal of antagonism between Williams men and Bennington girls, the attitude of many girls is summed...
...entrance fee of only 25 cents every finishes of the 12 mile grind starting from the Larz Anderson Bridge will be greeted with feasts and celebrations at the Waban Welcoming Grounds...