Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the U.S. was still behind, but the gap was closing. Red tape had been cut; doubters had ceased doubting. The only important limit now was shipping...
From Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, exiled Raja of Jap-invaded Sarawak, the Ranee got a letter, from Australia. Excerpt: "I limit myself to one drink a day. I have it with two pals who are also dead broke owing to the Japs. We have all our meals in a hamburger shop around the corner. We get a hamburger, bread and butter...
...Senate, Tom Connally of Texas quietly withdrew his plant-seizure, anti-strike bill, but in the Naval Affairs Committee of the House there was a final lashing around before the Vinson bill (to wipe out overtime wages for hours under 48 a week, freeze existing labor-management relations, limit war profits) was tabled by a hairline 13-12 vote. The debate was bound to go on, but possibility of immediate action...
...program of the Navy which is concerned with the procurement of candidates for the Navy Air Corps has lowered its requirements for enlistment. The age limit has been lowered to 18 and the 2 years college requirement has been eliminated. Men who are graduates of secondary institutions and high schools and who are desirable officer material and physically and otherwise qualified can establish mental qualifications by the satisfactory completion of an examination given by the Navy. Men interested should apply directly to the Navy Flight Board at 150 Causeway Street...
Harvard men are being stranded on the assembly line of speed-up education. The decision to limit summer tutorial to Senior thesis writers strikes a crippling blow at the most distinguishing feature of Harvard education. Some plan must be devised to prevent the tutorial system from being rationed for the benefit of only a few selected students, with divisional preparation for the majority simply a matter of choosing from a list of books. Tutorial should be the last to be discarded, not the first...