Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story by itself is nothing. What makes the movie is its splendid portrayal of the narcotics agents who help Powell along the way--agents in Shanghai, Cairo, Beirut, Havana, each of whom is caught up for a moment as the great stream of pursuit sweeps by, and then slips away again into the quiet backwaters of his own little world. "To the Ends of the Earth" is, in fact, a story of human cooperation against a common enemy. It knows no international boundaries. And above all, it is true...
Student employees in the Union during hall last week brought up the perennial question of equality of wages between students and "civilians" hired by the University. The undergraduate help have a good case in requesting that their salaries be placed on the same basis of the waitresses: 65 cents an hour plus free meals when on duty. At the same time, the University is quite correct in saying that students do receive the equivalent now. But in making their equation, the University figures the meals to "civilians" at food cost, or approximately 40 cents a meal, while undergraduate employees...
...appeal to Dean Leighton's office last week, the company asked for help in protecting the pay stations in the Yard, and threatened to remove the offended machines if present practices continue. Although Yard cops are always on the lookout, the Dean explained that Freshmen have been getting away with far too many "cut-rate" calls...
...student food dispensers have two bones to pick with Union Dining Hall authorities. First, the matter of wages. The student waiters would prefer to receive the 65 cents plus free meals paid to outside help, rather than the present 75 cents an hour...
Second complaint of the waiters is that, although their job is intended as a type of scholarship, they are treated as "help" by Union matrons. At times, they have been told that a certain desirable food which is in short supply is not to be eaten by "help." The waiters argue that they pay just, as much for the meal as every other Freshman...