Word: midyear
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...many of the shortages which were forecast so gloomily six months ago have not materialized. Automobile production is running about equal to last year's rate. This week, the 3,000,000th car of the year will roll off U.S. assembly lines, almost matching last year's midyear total. Even with a 48% cut in production scheduled for the last half of 1951, the auto industry will hit the second biggest output in history for the full year. Despite retail price wars, retailers' shelves were still bulging with 29% more goods than last year. Businessmen...
...whose financial circumstances will not enable them to attend summer school will have to write Summerall explaining their reasons for not coming. Summerall had only received one letter by last night, but he expects to get more by the deadline on Tuesday. Many freshmen who entered MS 1 at midyear are scholarship holders...
...also revealed that freshmen who entered the R.O.T.C. unit here at midyear will not be charged for taking Military Science 1a in Summer School if they take an additional two half courses...
Richard A. Sears, teaching fellow in English, will leave the University at midyear to become a visiting lecturer in English literature at the University of Nagasaki in Japan. Sears, who is also a freshman adviser and proctor, obtained the two year position through the Institute of International Education, a clearing house in New York for foreign teaching jobs...
Just Wait. Department stores generally stuck close to their original prices, on Christmas goods, largely because they were selling out of big midyear inventories. "But just wait until we do our next buying," warned a Chicago executive. "We'll really be hijacked then." Already, Decca records had spun up 10?, Mohawk carpets 10% (the seventh raise, because of wool price increases, this year); some appliances, e.g., dishwashers, were going up about...