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...one-half, one-third, one-fourth fractions of deferred students would be made smaller if the military budget is raised and draft quotas resultingly enlarged. On the other hand, if President Truman succeeds in urging Universal Military Training on Congress, this deferment policy will no longer hold...
...Wisconsin's centennial year there are 18,623 students enrolled at Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...
...Edward L. Doheny, widow of one of the principals in the Teapot Dome oil scandal of the 20s, agreed to sell her one-fourth interest in California's Coalinga Nose, Pleasant Valley and Guijarral Hills oilfields. Price: $43 million. Buyer: Tide Water Associated...
...College itself can absorb only about one-fourth of the job-hunters in such positions as dining-hall busboys, lab technicians, and the like. The other three-fourths must find employment with individuals or companies in Cambridge and Boston...
...Nashua, where one-fourth of the working force was employed by Textron, Roy Little's Puerto Rican deal looked like a death sentence. Cried a local labor leader: "A disaster for the entire community." A textile man was just as sore. "It is ridiculous," said he, "to demand that labor act with responsibility while capital takes an irresponsible attitude...