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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the drive fell short of its goal of $25,000, Deane revealed that, "according to all available records, this is the largest amount ever raised by a Harvard charity drive...
Freshmen gave the largest single class contribution. $8,513.58 was received from the Class of '52, although at Registration, the Yardlings had pledged almost $10,000. Deane said, however, that he is "highly gratified with the results...
...walls, civilians clustered at the doors of tight-packed rows of shops. The bandaged heads of soldiers stood out in sharp relief among the crowds. Every few hundred yards our car passed soldiers hobbling on crutches or canes. Most of Taiyuan's factories are still working-the arsenal, largest below the Great Wall, at full capacity; the cotton mills, machine-tool works, cigarette factories and soda works at reduced output for lack of raw materials. The shops were filled with all kinds of goods-except food...
Blackboards & Boredom. For its largest audience (an estimated 11 million around the country), TV tried earnestly to make up the difference by cooking up things to put on the screen. Some of the devices were effective and to the point-e.g., the simple scoreboards and graphs that gave the returns at a glance (but not the detail-packed blackboard charts that looked like visual doubletalk...
...Labor did it," the President is reported to have said in the first flush of triumph. The Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, in proclaiming victory just before the Dewey telegram, opened his statement by acknowledging that the largest share in the results belonged to organized labor. While a more detached view will reveal that other factors were operative in producing the upset, labor leaders did work hard in the campaign and will not be bashful in claiming credit...