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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never lifting his eyes from his report, Mr. Ford asked the assemblage to turn to page five for what he confidently referred to as "some interesting facts." These included a Net Rental Income of $10,511.79, Internal Interest Charges to Merchandising Departments of $17,561,00, and something called a Demolition Expense, $37,765.95. It all added up to the fact that the Coop lost over $25,000 last year, which seemed to disturb neither Mr. Ford nor the 30 participating members...
More than 300 midshipmen in the College's Naval Reserve Officer Training unit have just finished filling out four-page Loyalty Certificates. This is the first time that the Government's standards for rating the loyalty of an individual have filtered down to a large group of undergraduates at Harvard. The standards are very unfortunate...
...last week, the flood had reached Manhattan. From 60 loudspeakers spotted throughout the wide halls and rabbit warrens of Grand Central Terminal, commuters were pursued by the Blue Danube and the persuasive commercial. F. LeMoyne Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume...
...Luckman's agents got options on temporary office space, a list of 4,000 houses and 500 apartments for the 1,300 employees to be moved, made reservations in 40 hotels to shelter the vanguard. To fill employees in on New York, Lever's prepared an 80-page guidebook on how and why the move was being made and crammed with shopping tips, subway maps, bus routes and commutation times and fares from the suburbs. Even the printing of this book went on in cloak & dagger fashion. Up until press time, no words which might tip things...
Variable Alphabet. It appears, however (by page 320) that after a satiety of bloodshed and moral corruption, "a colossal need arose for truth and justice, for reason and for some form of order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars...