Word: portions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students, faculty, and administration alike grew alive to the housing problem during the term, for the return of only a small portion of the Harvard men alwar conjured up a picture of the inevitable result of the homecoming of the rest of them. With official enrollment predictions for next fall hovering around the 5800 mark for the College alone, it was obvious to all that action was necessary...
...problem, said Mr. Voorhees, is: How can costs and profits be covered when some costs, such as wages, have been arbitrarily shoved up without the increased production necessary to cover them? "A portion of the public," said he, "has been made to believe that wages in large industry can be advanced without limit and without effect on price...
...upward spiral of living costs, the University has granted pay raises to as 10 percent to its non-academic employees. Yet Harvard officialdom seems callously unconcerned about the needs of its student workers who depend upon the pay of their term-time jobs to meet a sizeable portion of their college expenses. Wages for students employed by or through the University have remained unchanged since long before the war. Baby-sitters still receive 25 cents an hour; House librarians, 35; students working in the dining halls or on odd jobs are paid 60 cents an hour, while Widener employees...
Individual Portion. In Chicago, Mrs. Herman Stoeckel separated from her husband, squabbled with him over division of property, convinced the court that she should have sole custody of a half-pound of butter, nine pounds of sugar...
With an average of 33 percent favoring blanket adoption of the proposals, the House votes ran parallel to each other, while a 50 percent all-yes in the Union, where one glass of milk is the regular portion, emphasized student concern with that item elsewhere...