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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even allowing for the V-12 and NROTC units here, the ratio of Radcliffe girls to Harvard men has assumed fearful proportions. Despite the glamor of omnipresent uniforms, an eligible civilian has unlimited opportunities to obtain dates...
...line with the international trade policies of Cordell Hull. The Commodity Credit Corp. announced that, under an amendment to the Surplus Property Act, it would pay export subsidies to help clear the U.S. of its huge surpluses of cotton and wheat. This will permit the exporter either to obtain the wheat and cotton from the corporation at world prices or to pay farmers the current domestic prices, then sell the commodities abroad at the much lower competitive world price and collect the difference from the Government. The difference will be big: U.S. cotton now costs between...
...pseudonym "Vercors" he also wrote the Editions' first volume, Le Silence de la Mer (later translated as The Silence of the Sea and published in LIFE Oct. 11, 1943). Working secretly nights and Sundays, Underground Printer Ernest Aulard handset the Editions' first volumes, later managed to obtain a linotype...
...Henry Kaiser's shipyards in the Northwest went back to a seven-day week. The reason: inability to obtain 10,000 additional workers needed to keep pace with tanker and transport building schedules. But at the Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard at Baltimore, the keel was laid for a sleek, 9,902-ton freighter intended for the postwar services of the American Export Lines to Mediterranean and Indian ports...
...Without political democracy in our country it will be difficult to bring about an ideal industrial economy. To obtain foreign funds we must first win the confidence of foreign countries...