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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other side of the picture, the editors said, is the biography situation, where huge gaps still remain in the material for the Album. Large numbers of men from both '47 and '48 have not turned in biography forms, and men still in the College have been requested to obtain blanks at the CRIMSON building, 14 Plympton Street, and turn them in there if they have not already done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Album Crows At Conclusion Of a Division | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...better than Hitler and his Nazis. Author St. John scanned the horizon for opponents of New Yugoslavia, but they were as scarce as Tories in the Kremlin. The few he did find turned out to be selfish little rascals whose only aim was to get their confiscated property or obtain a U.S. passport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tito in C-Major | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Five hundred feet of signatures is the goal the Harvard World Federalists will aim for as they begin canvassing "every home in Cambridge" tomorrow to obtain voters' support for a petition backing universal government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Federalists Chase 10,000 Signatures To Back Petition | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

Conspienous waste and the absence of any College-wide plan to save food spurred Hale to seek support in Winthrop for his idea. "The money saved by a reduction in food quantity can be used to obtain better quality foods," he said, emphasizing that the main object of smaller servings was to save food for Europe, and that any benefits to House residents were secondary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Food Project Clips Waste | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...sources of crude had little choice. If they did not meet Sun's buying price, they would probably not be able to buy crude. In explanation of the increase, Sun's Vice President John Glenn (Jack) Pew* said that his company had "found it increasingly difficult to obtain crude oil. . [because] of ever-increasing premiums which are being paid ... by many of our competitors." But many oilmen disagreed when Pew added that "an increased price will prove an incentive for stimulating increased production" Crude was short because of high demand, lack of transportation and a shortage of drilling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Up Again | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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