Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...financial contribution to these endorsed candidates. "In a city wide vote, the CCA's contribution makes it easier for it to swing the election. A candidate who has ability and qualifications also needs about $2000 to campaign successfully. Many of the most qualified candidates could not scrape together this amount." The most notable examples of this, Crane says, are Professor Amory, Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admissions, who served a term on the School Committee, and Richard E. Shaine '41, formerly an Adams House tutor, who the CCA brought into the 1949 School Committee race...
Pentagon officials revealed yesterday that the armed forces will be enlarged by 500,000 men in the near future. The move will force local draft boards to "scrape the bottom of the manpower barrel." This increase will raise the total to 4 million from the present goal...
Nevertheless, when the Band has to scrape the bottom of its financial barrel, as it is doing now, nobody seems to give a damn. The H.A.A. just shakes its head over a ream of red-inked ledgers and the alumni point apologetically to the new income tax laws; there is no money coming from either source. That leaves the Band's future up to students...
Only two weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 27), the Defense Production Administration indicated that it would reject Harvey's plan, for failure to agree on terms. The loan had been conditioned on his raising $7,000,000 capital of his own, and the most he could scrape up was half that amount. Last week DPA changed its mind, approved the loan to Harvey anyway. Under the terms, he has 18 months to raise the other $3,500,000, but he can draw from RFC on the loan as soon as he puts up $2,000,000 in working capital...
...staffers for scoops. He tangled with almost everybody. "I'm like a loaf of yeast bread," he liked to say. "The more they knead me the higher I rise." He always carried a revolver and sometimes even drew it, though his aim was so bad that in one scrape he fired at an antagonist and shot his chief editorial writer...