Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contract system whereby students had the choice of eating 10, 14, or 21 meals a week in college dining halls was a war casualty which has not as yet been rehabilitated. All students except commuters are now required to sign for full board at $11.50 a week. This reduced rate, below the price of $13.65 for meals paid for individually, is made possible by the low average of attendance, only 16 meals per week. The administration argues the fairness of holding the rate down on the ground that those who eat some of their meals out, thereby lowering the average...
...However, we can no longer postpone the day when tuition must be increased. During the current academic year the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has been operating at a very large defleit. Our estimates for next year, assuming the old tuition rate are an operating loss of approximately $750,000. This is the result not only of increased prices, but also of the fact that for the first time since the war our student body will show a marked decrease in numbers...
Having recently decided to run for President, Howdy adds a new "thingumajig" to his platform each week from viewers' suggestions (samples: cut-rate banana splits, more pictures in history books, free circus and rodeo admissions). Last week Howdy announced that he would send campaign buttons to any child who wrote in. Two days later, the first order of 5,000 buttons had been exhausted, and requests were still arriving by the sackful...
Left-Wing Cad. Leisurely, precise Percy Cudlipp is a first-rate political journalist and a competent, quick-minded editor. Cudlipp sits in with Labor M.P.s on party policy debates, and must answer the closed-door criticisms of his readers at the Labor Party Congress each year. The Herald lambasted Fuel Minister Shinwell in last year's coal crisis, often prints signed critical articles by Labor backbenchers...
...Hudson had doubled its profit to $5.7 million. Better still, said Barit, by late May-thanks to an "extra 5,000 monthly tons of steel from a Government mill he had leased-Hudson could step up its 600-car daily production to 1,000 a day. At that-rate, Hudson could shoot at its 1929 alltime record of 300,000 cars...