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Projects already started (to the point of pouring the concrete or laying the bricks) can be completed. But U.S. builders will have to abandon about $14 billion of construction now in the blueprint stage ($4 billion for expensive, non-veteran homes, $10 billion for theaters, office buildings, etc.). Said the Wall St. Journal: "The drastic order, if tightly enforced, will halt what is potentially the largest nonresidential building spree in history...
Despite emphasis upon accommodating veterans in the University, every effort will be made to accept a "respectable number" of non-veteran Freshmen coming directly from high schools next fall, Richard M. Gummere '07, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, said yesterday...
...Non-veteran Freshmen, however, will be discouraged from entering the College during the summer term according to current admission plans. It is expected that the percentage of veterans, which is now 58.3, may reach 70 percent in September...
...plan was basically concerned with permanent conventional building to assure first veterans, then non-veteran hardship cases, of real homes. Of the 1,200,000 houses planned for 1946, at least 700,000 would be permanent. No temporary dwellings of any kind were included in the 1,500,000 which he planned to build...
Less Competition. Selective Service won hands down. Said the court, in awarding Fishgold back pay for the time laid off: "Congress had in mind [the re-employment clause in the Selective Service Act] that the returning veteran should have one year to rehabilitate himself . . . free of competition with fellow employes. The veteran . . . shall be employed . . . even if it means that a non-veteran will not work." The Selective Service Act, it added, abrogates any security clauses in union contracts...