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Strongest Ever. How would the nation take its new tax load? In his midyear economic report, which was completely rewritten after the Korean attack, Harry Truman reported confidently that the economy "is stronger for whatever tasks lie ahead" than ever before. The world's mightiest economy was producing goods and services at the prodigious rate of $267 billion a year-an alltime high and (measured in a new term called "constant dollars," i.e., 1949 dollars) some $107 billion higher than 1939. Employment was at a peak of 61.5 million. Productivity of U.S. labor had risen nearly 32% since...
...University announced yesterday the conferring of 763 midyear degrees, as follows...
...Louis' midyear commencement last week, stubby little Professor Klausner stood with bowed head while Father Paul C. Reinert, university president, placed on his shoulders the black and purple hood of a Doctor of Laws. It was the first time in the school's 132-year history that a faculty member had been thus honored, the ninth time in a half century that St. Louis University had granted an honorary degree to anyone. (Among previous recipients: Marshal Foch, Belgium's Cardinal Mercier, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, now Pius XII.) "He has been more than a teacher," read the citation...
With student forward Bill Garrity and first-string defenseman Algie Allen graduated at midyear, Crimson Coach John Chase has widely revamped his team for tonight's contest. Three completely new line combinations as well as two new defensemen will play tonight...
Both forward Bill Garrity and defense man Algie Allen were graduated at midyear, and the loss of those two men, along with defense man Steve Howe, has left big gaps. Garrity was leading the squad in goals scored (13), and Allen was first-string left defense...