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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the others, she had managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Easy Stage | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...glad when my husband is out; he's so on edge." Franz Weimann lost his job when the blockade ended. To Buckow-Ost, a pastoral suburb, he moved his family of four. Their home is a two-room brick shack in a tiny garden. "How could we pay our old rent of 50 marks ($11.90) when unemployment compensation is 120 marks?" Frau Weimann asked. "This week my husband gave me 15 marks; we're all supposed to eat on that." The 250,000 unemployed families live like the Weimanns; another 250,000 get by perilously on small insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Shape of Nothingness | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

President Robert C. Seaver '50 revealed last night that the club has been in the red ever since its production of "The Survivors" in April, 1948. The University has declined to pay the deficit, but has insisted that HDC let an older man handle its money in the future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Wrestles with $4000 Deficit | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...already written letters to its creditors, explaining its situation and promising to pay off all debts as soon as it makes the money. It has also asked its members for contributions of $15 to $20 to help erase...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Wrestles with $4000 Deficit | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

Agassiz's Ghirlandajo Room will resemble a bank Tuesday and Wednesday for Radcliffe's annual Pay Day, at which Annex students mark organizations lists with X's next to the clubs of their choice and put the appropriate dues into envelopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Pays Club Dues in Lump Today | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

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