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Three means of help can be offered--loans, work, and scholarships. The traditional University policy has been to keep loans to the absolute minimum because of the feeling that an obligation beyond what a man can reasonably be expected to repay in the years immediately following graduation, results in moral depression and defeatism, culminating in a "What the hell, why bother about anything" attitude. This policy is not unreasonable, but it should be re-examined in the light of the present situation. The veteran who needs help does not require a large sum. He comes to college with what amounts...
Budget. John Taber, the man with the voice of a stentor, said he saw the way to slash $9 billion from the federal budget. This was a "minimum," he said. Senator Taft recently vowed that the Republicans could make a $13 billion cut once they got their hands on the budget. Some of the savings Taber saw would be in nonrecurring items (e.g.: food subsidies, Export-Import Bank, World Bank and World Fund). On other items Taber promised to use a sledge hammer if necessary. Items which immediately met his eye: $2.5 billion from Army & Navy; $2 billion in terminal...
...year ago the union made its demand for more money, got a minimum of 41? an hour. This year Bridges made his master stroke. He called the union out on strike. Demands: still higher wages, a 40-hour week, a closed shop, and joint company-union management of company-owned housing, company-supplied fuel, medical care...
...settlement Bridges won one concession, a net wage increase of a minimum 18? an hour, to which the owners had agreed almost a month ago. But he had to forego the other demands, including the much-wanted closed shop. Bridges will undoubtedly have another go at Paradise another...
...plan, in effect, makes $152, $164, and $176 the maximum not income allowable to a family, if they are to take full advantage of the possible reductions, with partial reductions being given to those falling above the miximum but below the minimum incomes $164, $192, and $220 in this case--set by the ruling...