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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday was the students' round in the growing discussion over the College's 30 percent boost in dormitory rents, as a special investigation by the local chapter of the American Veterans Committee condemned the increase and the Student Council appointed a special group to look into the situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AVC Blasts Rent Rise; Council Set for Inquiry | 2/17/1948 | See Source »

...gave him some help. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder last week gave in to French demands for a look at bank accounts of Frenchmen in the U.S. U.S. bankers grumbled at this violation of depositors' confidence. This would enable the French government to lay its hands on perhaps $300 to $400 million by forcing the holders to turn them in for francs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Squeeze-Out | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

This week Coxhead Corp. was ready to get rid of the typewritten look. It had a new model machine whose type was almost indistinguishable to the layman from ordinary newspaper print. Unlike the old Vari-Typers, which can print in Arabic and 50 other foreign languages, the new machine has only five type faces, as yet, but they are specifically designed for newspaper printing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Look in Printing | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...some scare scenes, which are pretty well filmed, and some scare characters, who are amusingly played. George Coulouris uses his trapezoidal shoulders effectively. Hazel Brooks, as a prettied-up version of the Dark Lady of Cartoonist Chas. Addams' horror house, is fine in her part and fun to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Most combat veterans will probably find Peter's constant concern with his war-fractured sensitivity-and his glib articulateness about it-only annoying. And all veterans will look in vain for anything like real understanding of their difficulties and disappointments since victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Unhappy Men | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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