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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer the scape-goat of post-war planning but receive the coal with which Potsdam had intended to bolster Allied countries, French recovery receives a staggering set-back under the new plan, for Germany now retains 79 percent of its own mined coal and the Saar mines fall far short of the production needed to smelt down Alsace Lorraine ore. France must either pay $22 per ton for American coal or do without the fourteen million tons her industries lack this year. Meanwhile the wisdom of building up German industry at this time becomes increasingly doubtful as each new report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

Compared to the neat way American record companies have produced Mozart symphonies and Beethoven quartets in a series of performances by the recognized authorities in those fields, the treatment of Romantic piano music has been little short of chaotic. In this extraordinarily rich and varied field, there has been no planning, no skillful choice of works to be recorded, and little utilization of the pianists...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

Defensively, the Badgers were nothing short of superb, blanking the highly geared Yale offense for the first time in 20 consecutive games. Levi Jackson, Ferd Nadherny, and company broke through the stubborn Wisconsin forward wall for a mere 89 yards...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Just as in the Army win the week before, the Crimson short passing game split the Amherst defense while the long leading boots of the Jeffs were methodically returned by the Harvard fulls. In a simultaneous game the Amherst Jayvees won from the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Defeats Amherst, 3-2 | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Harvard rooters were short of feminine companionship there was still at least one hand too many on the Crimson side of the field. According to a local sports writer's story three-handed Dick Harlow after the game simultaneously patted Ox DaGrosa's head, shook his hand, and stroked his shoulder. This probably was the neatest trick of the week even for a man referred to by another imaginative scribe as a "Machievellian fern fancier...

Author: By Burton S. Glinn, | Title: Purple Falls as Concrete Shows No Bloodstains | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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