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...movement began to pick up headway in 1940, when the Missouri Synod appointed Dr. Reuben William Hahn executive secretary of the Student Service Commission in Chicago. Today, the commission directs study groups on more than 1.000 campuses; on 32, Lutheran students have their own chapels. This week Dr. Hahn dedicated the newest chapel at the University of Alabama...
...could avoid any new wool purchases this year, and perhaps rid itself of half its old holdings. Wool growers, who wanted something more like the 16? proposed last year, said they were "stunned" by Davis' request. Despite the present 25½? wool tariff, imports have been making steady headway in the U.S. wool market, accounting for 71% of domestic consumption last year v. only 60% between 1946 and 1950. The wool men insisted that the additional duty should be at least 12?, and possibly...
Prefabricated construction, which now accounts for 8% of all new home building, last week was making fast headway in the commercial building field as well. Among the newest developments...
...conscientious insurgent is never easy. He must have strength and fire to attract followers; he must be tough and crafty and fearless to make headway against convention. At the turn of the century, old "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin was such a man. Millions listened to his rebel yell and to his attacks on the railroad and lumber interests as he fought his way into the governor's mansion in Wisconsin. But the fierce old reformer sensed that his progressive movement would not be fulfilled in his own time, so he bequeathed his fame and following...
...success." Of the $8.9 billion worth of short-term securities maturing Feb. 15, only 1½% were cashed in, the rest exchanged for new securities. But the Treasury, which is trying to get more of the national debt on a long-term basis, made little headway in that direction. Less than 7% of the maturing short-term issue was exchanged tor a new bond paying 2½% and maturing in five years and ten months (TIME Feb 9); the remaining 91% went right back into one-year certificates, at 2¼%. It looked as if Secretary Humphrey would have...