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...typical of those who struggle through the blank forms in Memorial Hall today. Nearly all of them are either "old veterans," returning to pick up the loose threads of an education rudely ripped apart by unfortunate necessity, or new Freshmen older and more mature by several years than the prewar average...
...clean log houses well thatched and chinked. The Ukraine is Russia's richest agricultural region; in food and housing its peasants now have a living standard "well below that of an Iowa farmer, but well above that of a Southern sharecropper." This spring the planting was 80% of prewar normal, but drought has already almost halved the expected-and desperately needed-1946 crop...
Until the new farms started producing beef and beans and until the new houses were built, Grau had a more immediate problem in keeping wages and living costs (up 275% since prewar) in line. Another poser: how to keep the Communist tail from wagging the Cuban...
...mile Indianapolis Memorial Day race is famed as a testing ground for new auto gadgets. But this race, the first since 1941, was mostly a contest between patched-up prewar jobs. Only nine of the 33 starters finished. The largest crowd ever to watch a U.S. sport event (175,000 people) saw shy George Robson, 36, in his third try at Indianapolis, cross the line first. He averaged 114 m.p.h. in his light blue, alcohol-burning Thorne Special. His reward: about $48,000 in prizes and a trip around the world...
...flowing to Rotterdam. Some of them will be used to rebuild Unilever plants on the Continent, although they were comparatively little damaged. Some will go to pay N.V. stockholders a whopping back dividend of 29.6%, announced last week. Probably Unilever Ltd., which has never missed a dividend (10% in prewar years), will now boost its wartime rate...