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...partial set-off against expenses for veterans aid running at the rate of $200,000 a year, rents amounting to some $70,000 annually will be collected from the Jarvis Courts and Soldiers Field apartments while rents at Devens, not yet finally determined, will run at a some-what lower rate, Reynolds believes...
...National Disaster." President Truman, warning the people of serious blows ahead, called it "a national disaster." Hundreds of factories closed; many hundreds more were about to shut down for lack of coal or materials. Partial paralysis was creeping over the rail lines. Belatedly, drastic measures were applied. The Government declared a rail freight and express embargo, effective May 10, on all shipments except food, fuel and a few other essentials. Most industries could no longer ship or receive materials. Rail lines were ordered to curtail passenger service by half, effective May 15. Several lines, close to the bottom of their...
...vote no when Communist Deputy Jean Curabet, who had been razzing him from the audience, leaped onto the platform and clipped him on the chin. Curabet then seized the speaker's carafe and emptied it on the head of stunned Minister Michelet-a teetotaler, but not that partial to water. At this point a young woman jumped onto the platform and went at Communist Curabet with her fists. Reported the semiofficial news agency: "The meeting then broke up in confusion...
...steel-hungry West Coast, the question of the year has been: Who will buy and operate the Government-owned $190,000,000 Geneva steel plant? Last week, in a room in one of Washington's dismal buildings, the West got a partial answer. Seven bids for the plant were opened by the War Assets Administration...
Ground for partial agreement was, however, found in the determination of the Masters that there would be no return to the temporarily-suspended tradition of allowing each individual House Master to establish his own closing hour on the evenings of dances and other special occasions...