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...operatives, which are subsidized by Radcliffe, are designed to make low-cost housing available to needy students. They will be continued even after the new Radcliffe dormitories are completed...
...failure of parietal petitions: Why is the Student Council so opposed to the idea of having a student union at Harvard to provide low-cost recreation for students and their dates? The Council says a union is "unsuited to Harvard." Shall we let our pride at keeping Harvard unique among universities blind us to the advantages that other student bodies have in the enjoyment of their recreation centers? I don't know what kind of facilities should be provided--to be acceptable to the average Harvard man, they should be good--but the Student Council certainly can find many examples...
...Friendly Five" men's shoes at $5 a pair. Invading the North, he bought a tanning plant in Michigan, started a box-making division and a subsidiary to furnish low-cost cement, chemicals and finishes to the manufacturing plants. By 1941, his integrated company had 43 retail stores of its own, 10,000 other outlets, and sales of $24 million. Last year, with outlets in 18 nations, sales hit a new peak of $84 million, and General netted $4,000,000. Just before buying Johnston & Murphy, Maxey Jarman expanded by buying Massachusetts' W. L. Douglas...
...from college, worked as a clerk and section hand on the family's Union Pacific. In 1915, two years after graduating, became a U.P. vice president, board chairman in 1932; also (1931) a partner in the banking house, Wall Street's Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Introduced "streamliners," low-cost dining cars; turned 4,200 acres of snowbound railroad land into moneymaking Sun Valley. Gave up shipbuilding venture in the face of rugged competition; abandoned a Russian manganese export concession fearing Soviet nationalism...
...ship cost more than $70 million, with the Government kicking in $42 million to help pay for the military features and the extra cost of building her in an American shipyard rather than in low-cost foreign yards. The United States will also get a subsidy from the Government, possibly up to six figures a year, to make up the difference between U.S. operating costs and the average operating costs of foreign competitors...