Word: post-war
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...find the United States riding the tail end of the post-war boom and the beginning of the rearmament boom. Harry Truman is in his sixth year as President, and his Fair Deal has run down, run into the sand and disappeared. Liberal and progressive forces are in retreat. I found Americans who wondered whether it would be healthy for them to write what they really thought, whether associating with certain acquaintances might not get them into trouble. This was shocking. Undoubtedly just a temporary faltering of the American spirit. But nonetheless shocking...
...known that Jackson has been asked, but there is no official confirmation of his acceptance. The Board of Student Advisers has followed the post-war precedent of inviting a Supreme Court justice. Associate Justice Hugo L. Black sat at last year's Ames finals...
Meanwhile, the Massachusetts House of Representatives tentatively approved an investigation of the high number of failures--581 out of 723--in the recent Massachusetts bar examinations. Thirty-seven out of 76 Law School graduates passed for a percentage of 48.7. The post-war average for the Law School has been 70 percent passing...
...improvements have not solved the long-range problem. In a decade or two, Boston will have no dumping space. The present dumps are nearly filled, and residents in and around Boston have refused to let the Public Works Department open new ones. Boston has long planned incinerators as a post-war project of first importance, but for some reason nothing has been done. By constructing city owned disposal facilities, Boston could eliminate the persistent contract monopoly. Moreover, a large incinerator in central Boston would not only get rid of the costly Spectacle Island run, but could supply heat and power...
...official drop in enrollment won't be known until the administrative board determines how many students' connections will be severed for academic reasons. The total enrollment of roughly 4590, however, is still considerably more than the 4300 undergraduates which Provost Buck last year described as "the normal post-war student complement...