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...rows of bookshelves and murals in all three rooms, will have the prize housing package on the campus. But 300 other student families at Missouri will also live in trailers, parked on an abandoned golf course and two lots. Missouri, bulging with 10,000 students instead of its prewar 6,000, last week postponed the opening of college until enough barracks could be knocked down at Fort Leonard Wood and transplanted 96 miles to the campus...
...only seldom must our researchers go outside their own ranks for translation help, for 85% of them speak one or more foreign languages. This versatility gets more useful every day now that foreign publications are reaching America again in almost prewar quantity-and, of course, articles written for foreign audiences in their native tongues are a rich source of background information and local color. (Most difficult to translate, observes one Foreign News researcher, are the captions under the cartoons. The reason is a wry one coming from TIME-she says the lines are "too condensed, too colloquial...
Pleasure-seeking travelers were not the only Americans whose money was coming across the border. Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada, revealed in Ottawa last week that U.S. investments in Canadian securities now total a walloping $4.925 billion. Prewar total: $4.190 billion...
...British Way. Hession, prewar R.A.F. pilot, got his "blue" in swimming at Cambridge, was the youngest vicar in the Church of England when he assumed his duties in 1936. He has had a hand in many a British religious film, has shown some of them in his church...
There is little chance that Bolivia will exceed the 17,600 tons agreed upon. Reason: rising labor costs (up from a prewar 27? per-man-per-day to $2) will force some mines operating on a low profit margin to remain closed. So, with a low tin yield coming in from the rich Far Eastern mines, the CPA expects a short tin supply until...