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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With nine lettermen from last year's team that handed the Crimson a 5 to 3 setback, the men from Amherst rate as one of the better teams the Varsity will face this year. Last week they beat McGill College in a close 2 to 1 decision but the Montrealers are probably the best college team in Quebec...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Soccer Teams Tackle Amherst Today | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

First problem to be overcome by the male escort aspirant is getting through to the party. With veteran-swollen men's schools in the vicinity hiking the date rate to an all time high, one Radcliffe girl, working the evening eight to ten bells shift, said she answered the telephone at least a dozen times an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phone Belles Ask Patience From Callers | 10/18/1947 | See Source »

With two weeks of practices behind them, the Freshman soccer team plays Medford High School, the best prep school team in the Boston area, this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock on the Business School Field. Winners of their first two games this season, the Yardlings rate about even with the Boston Boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Face Soccer Test | 10/15/1947 | See Source »

...force, even of the smallest dimensions, would greatly facilitate operations. We have thousands of planes and millions of spare parts which are obsolete in terms of our air force but first-rate material for the Chinese air force. To release this material and turn it over to the Chinese would cost us nothing but a bookkeeping entry.... If we release the necessary munitions it seems unlikely that the costs could be more than $200 million a year-$600 million for the whole Three Year Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: REPORT ON CHINA | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...crisis was of prime importance, not only to planemakers, but to everyone in the U.S. The aircraft industry, along with air transport and foreign air routes, was a major instrument of U.S. foreign policy, U.S. defense. Yet plane production has withered away until the current annual rate is only 1,370 planes. Major General (ret.) Oliver P. Echols, president of the Aircraft Industries Association, told the commission that it would be "impossible to provide the 6,000 to 10,000 planes necessary to bring the air forces up to operational [i.e., minimum fighting] level within any period of time strategic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: In Extremis | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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