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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England Council Steel Committee is directing the early planning for the mill. Formed three years ago, this group has the job of selecting the site and arranging for the financing of the new enterprise. Finding a location is the Committee's biggest problem-not because it can't find a suitable city but because so many cities are seeking such an industtry to ward off unemployment. Boston would like to see the mill in adjoining Hingham or Everett; the only steel plant now in New England is a small one on the Mystic River flats in Everett. Hingham, however...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Commenting on the purchase-card system at the request of Allen E. Kline '50, chairman of the purchase committee, Harris, who said he was speaking "as an economist who has some interest in the problem of financing higher education," stated that payment of college costs is "a great burden" on the average American family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris Says Purchase Cards Aid Economy | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Getting through New Haven's commando-course will be something of a problem, however, for anyone not safely in a bus. The legendary New Haven trolleys have bowed to the modern age, but the streets are still clogged and slow. And taxis are high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Easy to Travel to New Haven | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

...final member of the panel, J. Dougas Bush, professor of English, said that one problem today is that "poets write for other poets" rather than for the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Speaks In Eliot on Poets | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

They plan to consider the problem from two angles: 1. What is the ultimate aim, what is a whole man? and 2. What does a Harvard education do for a man in the course of four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Whole Man | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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