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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July 1945, William J. Bender '27, present Counsellor for Veterans, took over his job and made preparations to handle tire vast numbers of veterans who would apply for admission during what was expected to be the peak years of 1945 and 1946. With six assistant counsellors, a staff of over 60 persons, and supervision of a nursery for veterans' children, an agency for veterans' wives, and a housing office to help accommodate married veterans, in addition to the operation of the general office, the Counsellor has processed the 3,981 veterans now enrolled in the University. Over 1,200 letters...
Prokofleff: Sonata No. 7, Opus 83 (DM 1042). This second of Prokofleff's three "War" Sonatas was only completed in 1942, and shows its composer at the peak of his skill as a piano writer. The grotesquely dramatic changes in mood and tempo certainly do not make for particularly pleasant listening but they reveal a highly ingenious and original style of composition. Vladimir Horowitz, who has introduced all of the "War" Sonatas in this country, does a fine job on music that is highly suited to his style of playing. The recording is good...
...Doctor. Prescriber of these and many other medicines was Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., fast-talking, energetic president and general manager. Modie Spiegel took over the 80-year-old family business in 1932, when it was deep in Depression trouble. Annual sales had dropped from a $20 million peak in the booming '20s to a disastrous $7 million. Losses since 1929 had been $2.6 million...
...poor in Italy have rations equivalent to the diet enjoyed in 1937 at the peak of Mussolini's prosperity era. . . . [Italy] is a veritable land of plenty, while in all three countries black-market restaurants supplied steaks, eggs, fruits and other delicacies at prices equivalent to those of restaurants in New York...
...Navy contract changed their minds. Before the war was over, Hendy had: 1) produced $225,000,000 worth of equipment (including engines for one-third of the Liberty ship fleet); 2) expanded to a 55-acre plant employing at its war peak 7,500 workers. Hendy's most spectacular achievement: when the Navy needed 252 rocket launchers in a hurry for the invasion of Kwajalein, Hendy produced them in 176 hours...