Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Contact," a Brooks House program that enables Harvardmen in the armed forces to keep in touch with their classmates, is still maintained as a transition service, while the wartime blood donor organization has been converted to supply Cambridge hospitals instead of the Red Cross...
...painless way of meeting commitments to export six million tons of wheat by July i, flour millers last week began to extract 80% of the wheat kernel instead of the customary 68 to 72%. This was no great hardship for U.S. citizens. What the new flour* lost in snowy whiteness it would gain in nutritive value; U.S. bread, usually flat, poor stuff, would gain in taste...
During the war the U.S. had been able to use its grain "wastefully," i.e., convert it into meat instead of feeding it directly to humans, because of its vast stockpiles. Now that the piles were depleted, the U.S. could no longer afford such waste. If the U.S. meant business, it would have to take drastic measures to cut down on its vast numbers of pigs, cattle and chickens, no matter how profitable they are to farmers. But Clint Anderson, too well aware of the powerful farm bloc, plainly hoped that the grain could somehow be found painlessly...
...magnetophone, a lightweight sound-recording machine, using plastic tape coated with a special magnetic iron oxide instead of the steel wire in U.S. machines. A mile of plastic tape weighs one pound; the same length of wire 55 pounds...
...line. But where and how? The price raise may make it harder than ever for manufacturers to break the bottlenecks -e.g., in castings-which have plagued industry as viciously in peace as in war. For lack of one small part, many a product has remained in the factory, instead of moving into the stores...