Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead of the traditional cap & gown, George Marshall wore a business suit, General Omar Bradley his Army uniform. Explained Harvard's President James B. Conant: "We put no hood on those receiving degrees . . . uniforms and civilian dress are quite usual. . . . Dress is optional...
...veterans are searching for reasonably priced, reasonably clean living quarters. At least 3,000,000 families have no place they can all their own home, and 10,000,000 more are living in rickety shanties or slums,--in the breeding grounds of vice, crime, and disease. And instead of being on the up-grade, housing starts have dropped from 100,000 a month in the fall of 1946 to a meager 42,000 in March...
...Instead of an all day session of registration today, Mem Hall will be open for only four and a half hours, from 8:30 to 1 o'clock. Afternoon hours will be consumed by placement tests...
...daisy chain" of steel brokers. The committee was not able to pin down the exact workings of the grey market. But the plain assumption was that steel flowed into it from brokers able to buy from mills, by virtue of prewar dealings, or from manufacturing companies with excess supplies. Instead of canceling their mill orders, as they usually would, these companies took delivery and turned the steel over to brokers at a fat profit. As each party in this daisy chain got his cut, the price was run up and steel was kept out of the normal channels which supply...
...interpreters, into occasional friendly arguments. Over at Uncle Joe's is haphazard reporting on the breezy, often pointless level of a women's-club lecture. But it does convey something of what daily living is like for both foreigners and Muscovites, and Moscow itself becomes a city instead of a featureless backdrop for the Kremlin...