Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They were wrong, even though the first year of Marshall aid produced a fine and eminently visible job in Europe. ECA money built steel mills in France, brought running water to hill towns in Italy, put ports back in business with hundreds of new cranes, and supplied more than half the bread for a whole group of major western European nations. It helped jump France's production to a figure slightly higher than the big boom year of 1928. But the Marshall Plan failed, as many people thought it would, to cut into Europe's basic economic troubles...
...report by Treasurer Roy M. Goodman '51 that the Council is on "thin ice" financially, with suggestion that money activities of the many Council committees be centralized through one business manager, as an economy move...
Last year's Student Council spent more money than any other in the College's history. It sliced deep into its reserve fund and left this year's Council dangerously close to being insolvent. When the present group meets all its inherited obligations, it will have only about a thousand dollars; this is one quarter the amount that last year's body was left by its predecessors...
...roofs. Finally caught in an oil refinery, Mr. Cagney is shot down by four more of those fine, accurate rifle bullets. One of the bullets touches off the gas storage tank upon which he is perched, and he dies, laughing like hell. He is probably laughing at all the money Warner Brothers and the cops have paid out to bring him down...
...class yearbook, "314," replaces the old-fashioned Class Album. The move was authorized last year by the Student Council in an effort to cut its losses in supporting the perennially money-losing Albums. At the same time the Council shifted control of the Freshman Register to the same group, and completely junked the Freshman Red Book...