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...Bureau figures that at least 65 percent of the students at Columbia College are partially selfsupporting. More than one-fourth of the College is registered with the Bureau, whose registrants college and university piled up a half-a-million dollars in on-campus jobs, such as "board jobs," last year. Total estimated earnings for students during paritime work amounted to two million dollars...
Plastic Dies. In Detroit, Chrysler Corp. began experimental use of plastic instead of steel dies to make truck panels. The plastic dies, roughly 75% cheaper than steel, can be used on an ordinary 1,000-ton press, weigh only one-fourth as much as steel dies, can be made in three or four weeks compared to 14 to 16 weeks for comparable steel ones...
...waist. Dark hair receding to the middle of his skull; a quick smile, a rueful laugh, eyes that are inclined to bulge. Is a serious, thinking, worrying, hard-working,, self-criticizing introvert. A frugal man, he has an income of about $50,000 a year (mostly from his one-fourth interest in the Bloomington, Ill. Daily Pantagraph...
...belittling tone in your Kefauver cover story puzzles me ... [It] has him supporting only "in theory" my "visionary plan for Atlantic Union." Since the Atlantic Union resolution which he sponsored is also backed by more than one-fourth of the members of both Houses of Congress-including such Senators as George, Carlson, Thye-and by such other conservatives as Justice Owen J. Roberts, Will Clayton, Joseph Grew, John McCloy, John Foster Dulles, James Wadsworth, Paul Litchfield, Harry Bullis (to name but a few), I take it that "visionary" is a compliment in your lexicon, and I thank...
This means that General Matt Ridgway's command (seven divisions) has taken two-thirds the amount sent to Mac-Arthur (21 divisions) for the march from New Guinea to the Philippines, about one-fourth the amount shipped by the Army to the entire Pacific Theater, including Asia and Alaska, in nearly four years of World...