Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carloadings were up nearly 9% from the same week of last year, electric power production 10%-37th consecutive advance. Steel mills were operating at 35% of capacity-highest level since October...
...unseasonally high level at which retail distribution is being maintained, the broadening of the wholesale buying to nearly double last year's total in some divisions, and the rapid rate ai which industrial operations are being resumed form some of the more reassuring phases of the major trends."-Dun & Bradstreet...
...clouds of uncertainty which for several months past have overspread the financial horizons of the New Deal have caused Harvard's Administration to put off until later than usual the annual decision on the next year's level of room rents, food prices, and other student expenses. But the time is rapidly approaching when these decisions must be made, and, fortunately or unfortunately, the financial horizons are also at last beginning to clear. The dollar has been devalued; prices may be counted upon to rise, if not correspondingly, at least to some extent. At the same time, the outlook...
...responsibility of President Conant to declare that this shall not be. The level of student expenses is not equitable as it stands. Throughout four years of depression, room rents and food prices have been kept at figures substantially above what many undergraduates could afford to pay. The effect has been to impose a crushing burden on the inadequate scholarship and loan funds, to drive students to all sorts of expedients in an endeavor to make both ends meet, and finally to force not a few to give up then college education or to seek it at some less expensive institution...
There is reason to belive that President Conant is not only sympathetic to undergraduate financial needs but is also conscious that the level of student expenses is a problem of the first order. Every friend of the College will earnestly hope that he will attack this problem with courage; that he will not be too greatly swayed by persons whose official position narrows their vision to the strict finances of the University budget; and that he will let it be known once and for all that the qualifications for attendance at Harvard College are intellectual and not financial...