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With this understanding, PBH joined Combined Charities. Just one year later, however, the Drive committee changed its policy, permitting students to select their own charities. Consequently, the money donated to Brooks House, while usually the largest single amount, fell considerably from the 1947 high...
Terral noted that since many law schools select their freshmen classes in the spring preceding their entrance, candidates for admission next year are advised to take either the November or February test...
...select group of four U.S. aluminum producers-Alcoa, Reynolds Metals, Kaiser and Anaconda-last week was joined by a fifth, the Harvey Machine Co. of Torrance, Calif. President Leo Harvey, who claims to be the biggest independent U.S. aluminum fabricator and has long wanted to produce his own raw material, signed a deal with the Government to build a $65 million, 54,000-ton-a-year aluminum plant at The Dalles...
...week's end a tumultuous convention in the government-owned Manila Hotel gave complete power to a Magsaysay-controlled executive committee to select a nine-man senatorial slate from the 55 candidates nominated on the floor. Then the 900 Nationalist delegates listened passively to a passionate speech by old Party Leader Jose P. Laurel, affirming his loyalty to Magsaysay but nominating his old friend Recto for a place on the party ticket. But Recto had little expectation that the executive committee would have him. He would run for the Senate anyway, possibly as an independent, he announced...
...select the 135,000 volumes they add each year, the library staff must pore over thousands of reports and reviews. "The book trade figures about 12,000 new books are coming out in this country each year," says Metcalf. "There are also 50,000 periodicals and reports, 15,000 publications from the U.S. Government Printing Office, 20,000 to 30,000 each year from the U.N.-many of them only small pamphlets, but somebody has to keep track of them...