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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carrel system is one of the library's most unusual end controversial features. Some 494 of them--500 were planned, but 6 got lost in the construction shuffie--are located through the acre and one-half of stack area on each of the three lower floors and the two above the main level...
Worse than this for the city's finances, some property owners pay lower taxes by having their assessed valuation lowered; the tax officials who do this lowering charge the land owners exorbitant fees. Such practices have discouraged many industries from remaining in Boston and have repulsed capable administrators from City Hall...
...solicitation work. Winthrop House led the field with 112 pledges, followed by Lowell with 88. Kirkland, Dunster, Adams, and Leverett had average showings of 50 to 60 pints. Eliot pledged 30, as much as Winthrop's B entry, which houses drive chairman William Polk. The Yard total was lower than expected--118. The Radcliffe drive netted 40 girls willing to give blood...
Radcliffe's Idler players will slash ticket prices for their forthcoming production of Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit" December 2 and 3. The move will start a new Idler policy of lower rates to combat the competition from the professional Brattle Theater group, club chairman Marty Nichols '50 announced last night...
...drivers, they are rather well off. They turn over every once in a while and suffer an occasional broken rib, but the injury rate is definitely lower for them than it is for the customers. All a driver's protection comes from two pipe braces, which criss-cross over the driver's head and keep the roof from caving in when a car overturns. Except for the windshield, there is no glass in the form of windows or headlights which might shatter in case of collision. The driver is equipped with an aviation-type safety belt and a football headgear...