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Last week, 74-year-old Herbert Hoover emerged from this governmental jungle to give Harry Truman a preliminary report at the White House. He had a number of recommendations. Shedding of unnecessary red tape on small Government purchases could save $250 million a year. It now costs $11.20 to process an order for a $10 purchase. Perhaps $3 billion could be saved by regrouping 60 administrative agencies into about...
According to official estimates, there are 45 million Untouchables in India and slightly less than three million in Pakistan. Their touch, their shadow, even their mere presence is considered polluting by some caste Hindus. In some villages they must wait by the well, pot in hand, till a charitable upper-caste Hindu (standing at a careful distance) pours some water for them. Occasionally an Untouchable will gather enough money to hire an upper-caste villager to draw his water for him regularly. Caste Hindu employers sometimes wrap up the money to be paid Untouchable workers, drop the pay into their...
...What have we got to show for it [?305 million voted for the army during 1948]?" Then, looking at Attlee, "I ask the Prime Minister that question. I see that he is likely to reply." "No," said Clement Attlee...
...left-wing writer who made his reputation in the 1920's with violent attacks on militarism and imperialism, wrote "Stalingrad" during the war, presumably in Russia and with Soviet blessing. The book was published in Berlin shortly after the end of the war, and has since sold over a million copies in Germany alone. Although it is slightly slanted to glorify the Russian Army and was extremely useful as anti-Nazi propaganda, it is still the only book of any note which describes any part of the recent war through German eyes. Whether it is historically accurate in every detail...
...Baker trust was set up under the will of the late George F. Baker '99, former New York Banker, who gave $1 million as an endowment followed the 1924 gift from his father of $5 million for the actual construction of the school's buildings...