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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War I. Mrs. Giard, then just out of college, served as personnel manager in a midwestern factory and won some sort of fame because if had the lowest turnover rate of any war industry in the area...
Beading its nearest competitor by a cool $90, Kirkland House bond sales for the past week totalled $240.40, while Winthrop was runner-up with $152.75. Adams ranked third of the Houses with $97.60, Lowell next with $26.15; while Dunster and Eliot occupied the lowest rungs of the bond sales ladder with $22.35 and $18.75 respectively. Leverett was not totalled...
...Everywhere the people could see that a year's indecision and vacillation had finally caught up with Claude Wickard and the Administration. Civilians were told they could have only half the amount of canned goods they ate last year. Black meat markets flourished. Butter stocks were at the lowest point in 18 years. Even Claude Wickard finally had to recognize that the land of plenty had become a land of scarcity...
Branch Rickey, Brooklyn Dodgers' boss, known and revered as "The Brain" in baseball circles, agreed with Cox. Said Rickey: "At the price [some $230,000], the lowest asked for a National League club in baseball history . . . there is a chance to get rich within ten years. . . . The new owners must be ready with enterprise, working capital, management, gameness, the spirit of adventure. . . . Even if the war stops baseball for a couple of seasons, the value of the Philadelphia club would be enhanced. . . . After two years of inactivity all the clubs would start from scratch...
Peril & Prestige. Visitors from India reported British prestige at its lowest point in recent history. The British can scarcely afford to allow Gandhi to die and become a martyr-the consequences would be unpredictable, and they might be fatal to British rule. As for the fasting Mahatma, he was again demonstrating, along with his appeal to millions of Indians, his shrewd sense of politics and his ability to regain prestige on fruit juice, water and an unquenchable spirit...