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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another factor has tended to ease the blow. As a result of technological improvements on the farms and increased job opportunities in cities, farm population has decreased. Consequently, the per capita net income on the farm has been held to a 7% drop since 1951. It is actually 11% higher today than the average of 1947 through...
...time when a majority of Britons are producing more, eating better, living in better houses and earning higher wages than ever before in history, Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler had an unpleasant duty to perform. On the first day of a new parliamentary session, he had to submit a supplementary "crisis" budget which hustled out a summer of prosperity and ushered in a winter of what looked dismayingly like oldtime austerity, as practiced by Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain is not bust but suffering from too much boom, yet Butler's nostrums bore the same cramping...
...condition of the field, already partially submerged, does not hopelessly slop up play, the Crimson can expect higher scoring than it has usually shown this year. McIntosh always gets many shots at outside right, and in practice this week, Coach Bruce Munro has found what may be the solution to the team's scoring problem, moving his insides away from the front of the goal, thus forcing the goalie to defend against shots from more angles...
...Tiger, picked to finish no higher than fourth in the League without its captain and brilliant tailback Royce Flippin, will start Sid Pinch at that position for the sixth straight time today, and will be favored to move into the League lead by defeating the Crimson. Princeton has not lost to an Ivy opponent, and is rated a solid touchdown better than Harvard...
...team defense, however, Harvard fell off to second place behind Yale, with a game average 3.6 yards higher than the Elis'. Princeton holds third place defensively, with Brown a close fourth...