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Four-Hour Time Lag...
...lag between social change and technological improvement...
...just these wider vistas that the pickle packers are endeavoring to bring to the surface. The job will be a difficult one. There is a disturbing cultural lag in the realm of the pickle. We are satisfied, however, that the future of the pickle is in good hands; given the proper facts, given the freedom of discussion in the market-place of opinion, given the technical know-how, the American people can be counted on to weigh all factors impartially, and give a rising vote of confidence to the pickle--a vote that cannot be gainsaid...
...spending: $41.9 billion. (Estimated expenditures this year: $40.2 billion.) He asked for a $5.9 billion tax boost,* even though, at current tax rates, estimated revenues for fiscal 1950 are only $873 million shy of what he proposes to spend. The trouble is, the President explained, there is always a lag in collections...
Associated Dean Robert B. Watson '37 blamed the lag in Selective Service operations for the oversized student body. The draft has failed to call up the extra men admitted last spring to keep the Class of '52 at a normal level, he said...