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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Commerce Department reported that in 1946 the U.S. exported $2,166 million worth of food-more than in any previous year except hunger-ridden 1919. Most of this ($1,354 million) was paid for, cash on the barrelhead. But $628 million was the U.S. contribution to UNRRA stocks, and $184 million went through Lend-Lease...
Furthermore, the Department of Agriculture forecast that, if "the present good weather holds, the 1947 wheat crop would be the biggest of all time-a whopping 1,212,000,000 bushels (v. 1,156,000,000 in 1946, the previous high). On the basis of farmers' planting plans, said the Government, corn and other grain crops would also be huge-depending on the weather. Despite this talk of bumper crops, grain prices steadied at week's end, even rose a bit. Traders hoped that, with most other nations short of grains, the U.S. would continue its heavy exporting...
Prospects for the appearance of the '47 Album seemed bright last night as nearly twenty men showed up at a preliminary organization meeting for the Class Book conducted by Council President Richard G. Axt '46. More than half of these attending had previous experience in that type of undertaking...
...function of the university . . . does not require . . . that every high-school graduate must be guaranteed a bachelor's degree. The chief handicap of American higher education . . . has been our too easy admission to university training of large numbers of students . . . not properly qualified by native ability, or previous training, or even social attitude...
...thoroughly corrupt society. Its cynical moral: sufficient vice usually succeeds and goes unpunished, whereas halfhearted vice -like virtue - is likely to enjoy less spectacular rewards. Mr. Lewin's modification: vice generally gets too smart for its own good. George Sanders, who starred in both of Lewin's previous pictures and is a sort of staff Lothario, by now does this kind of work very efficiently. The supporting cast is competent and the picture is lovingly made and handsomely mounted...