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...Interest on national debt: $5 billion. ¶ Tax refunds to individuals and corporations: $2.1 billion. ¶ Army & Navy: $11.2 billion (by far the largest single item). ¶International affairs: $3.5 billion-including $1.2 billion for the loan to Britain and $14.8 million for U.N. ¶ Veterans' services: $7.3 billion. ¶ Transport, communications and natural resources: $2.6 billion (including $443 million for atomic energy). ¶ Agriculture: $1.4 billion (onefourth of it for support of crop prices). ¶ Social welfare, health and security: $1.7 billion...
...talk to the Clevelanders and their fellow Americans came the Prime Minister of Italy, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Minister to Paris, the head of France's second largest political party, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. At the Cleveland Institute James F. Byrnes delivered an account of his successful stewardship as Secretary of State in a critical year of U.'S. history. From the same platform Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg redefined U.S. foreign policy for the first time since becoming head of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
...largest mass promotion of Faculty members since before the war, the Board of Overseers yesterday raised 23 men to the rank of full professor. Two more received associate professorships with another pair appointed to endowed chairs...
Underscoring increased activities of the Mountaineering Club, which is now the largest organization of its kind in the country, the Club Bulletin will be published for the first time today...
Business, arts and sciences, and law will be the major preoccupations of the 298 prospective alumni who plan to enroll at University graduate schools. Over 200 will do their graduate work at other institutions, with Columbia and Chicago drawing the largest representations. Only 13 Seniors have thus far made definite application for enrollment in the Medical School...