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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan and Boston, American Airlines, only line flying the 200 mile route, carries about 200 passengers on its ten scheduled flights back and forth. But on each of the first two days following the hurricane 1,000 passengers were flown from Manhattan to Boston alone and perhaps half that number carried from Boston to Manhattan by a combined service of four lines. By this week approximately 60,000 Ibs. of express -serum, clothing, telephone repair apparatus, newspapers-and 57,000 Ibs. of mail had been flown into New England...
...breakdown was first felt in 1922. By 1925 a committee headed by Owen D. Young was at work on the idea. First nationwide census was made by the Bureau of the Census for the year 1929, was repeated and improved for 1933 and 1935, producing such figures as the number of retail establishments (1,653,961), banks and other financial institutions (44,101), advertising agencies...
...Total number of enrollments in the courses of each major department (including of Graduate Students...
About 229 applications for the positions were made to Miss Peter this year, Phelps said, but pointed out that many have to be rejected if the Dean's office reports that their standing is poor. Although 230 monitor posts are open, the number of attendance-takers is really much less than that, owing to the fact that that most of them make reports for more than one course...
Rather than adopt a plan so drastic and generally unsatisfactory as an increase in the number of courses taken by Freshmen and reduction in the number of meetings, more half-courses should be offered in which Yardlings might glimpse at the finer things. At all events, some steps must be taken by University Hall if men are to go forth from Harvard equipped with anything more than shop talk...