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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's student loan facilities were proposed by Monro. The first, which has been employed at Yale for ten years, would provide for a maximum loan of $600 per year interest free until five years after graduation from college. Then there would be a 4 to 41/2 percent interest rate on the loan until it was completely repaid...
...second plan which MIT has used since 1929 involves similar loans which are paid back at a rate of $50 per half year after graduation and pays a continuous 1 percent interest rate on the loan. Which plan Harvard may adopt is still completely undecided and the question brought considerable debate at the Council meeting...
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln currently command top market prices-$125 and up-for holograph letters by U.S. Presidents, the weekly Antiquarian Bookman announced. A Herbert Hoover draws about the same as a George Washington ($100 up). Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson rate around $35 each; Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt, $10. A genuine pre-1945 Harry Truman goes at around $50 the holograph, neck & neck with a genuine Warren G. Harding...
...personnel director for the Army Air Forces, Miller joined the Flying Tigers cargo airline after the war and saved $15,000. This was enough to rent four DC-45 and start flying the lucrative Los Angeles-New York route last July. Flying 20 round trips a month at cut-rate fares of $99 ($58.85 under scheduled lines), Air America had carried 11,270 passengers by the end of the year. It had grossed $1,600,000 and netted a tidy $41,000. Miller did it by using 60 seats in his planes instead of the usual 44. He served...
Sartre's writing is occasionally much better than this pathological reverie, and in spots the book has an ingenuity and sharpness of detail worthy of first-rate talent. But the paradox of the central vision in Nausea is so forced and barefaced that most readers will not be able to accept it as anything but a perversion of the truth, a degenerated twisting of the classic experience of Western...