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...matter how much cramming Secretary Marshall may have done in preparation for the Moscow Conference, he won't succeed in moving the world any nearer permanent peace until he and the others who formulate our foreign policy face the unpleasant truth that the Soviet Union doesn't want a peaceful, prosperous world outside its own borders and those of its satellites...
...reached the 'consideration' stage on several past occasions. It is no easy task for a Hygiene Department, chronically harassed by personnel and equipment shortages to undertake the x-raying of several thousand men, particularly when the only machines now available are located at Stillman. However, the plan is brought nearer the realm of the possible by the offer of the Massachusetts Public Health Service to make available the necessary equipment to any groups or organizations that desire it. This factor plus the lasting contribution of such a program to the well-being of the Harvard community should encourage the Hygiene...
...Shanghai, prices are out of sight; dollars must be exchanged into Chinese at 1 to 12,000 (less 3% Government Bank commission), and unspent Chinese dollars cannot be changed back. Manila is still a rubble heap. Hong Kong is nearer normal than any Far Eastern city. Prices are well controlled. A hotel room costs only $2 to $3 a person. Singapore is smellier, more overcrowded than ever. But the famed Raffles Hotel is open again to tourists-although they may find it too quaint to be comfortable...
...past," one labor leader remarked bitterly, "Senator Ball has been on the side of the angels." Now labor leaders located him considerably nearer hellgate, somewhere away to the right of Senator Robert Taft. His proposals, they cried, were "reactionary" and "punitive." He was the very symbol of the anti-union threat which labor leaders fought and feared...
Although the towns on Vesuvius clustered nearer the cone than those on Etna, none was seriously damaged by the several threatening flows, but the funicular railway on the slope was completely overwhelmed and ashes were reported to have fallen in Albania, 300 miles away