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...position," Burke emphasizes. "When we say we're here to help needy students, this does not necessarily mean only scholarship students. We hope to fill the HSA with the most needy students--but I would hesitate to tell any student he is not needy." In short, need is a signifi...
Down too went its transatlantic air-express rates, from $2.02 per pound to $1.17. Pan Am also shaved passenger rates on the New York -Lisbon run and on many a Latin American route. Signifi cantly, the drop in rates was greatest -as on the Atlantic routes - where the competition was keenest. Having sunk its knife deep into the hides of competitors, Pan Am then gave it a turn. Said Pan Am: when it gets its new planes now on order (see below) it plans to cut rates again...
...navy up to full treaty strength and will cost in the neighborhood of four hundred million dollars; nor is the fact that the Civilian Conservation Corps cance. With the largest army in the could be rapidly transformed into an effective fighting force of three hundred thousand men entirely without signifi-world Russia does not need to make any increases; but what is perhaps even more forbidding is the abnormal concentration of troops in the Maritime provinces, which entails an expense that the Soviet can ill afford at the present...
...might have been President, had he not been so hostile to William Jennings Bryan in 1912. Famed, but not so signifi cant as the Underwood boom of 1912, was Alabama's cry, "Twenty-four votes for Oscar W. Underwood," which was re peated 103 times at the Democratic convention...
...York State, populous, rich, these dancers are labeled "signifi-cant." So, last week, delegates and reporters scurried to Syracuse where the Democrats held their nominating convention- and to Madison Square Garden in Manhattan where the Republicans assembled. Both parties had everything well oiled. Somebody opened the session with a prayer, somebody made a keynote speech, somebody produced the platform, somebody read it, almost everybody thought it was fine. On the second day the Standard Bearers were nominated, seconded many times, voted upon mechanically. So were the lesser lights on the tickets. People were happy, long-winded, subject to conventional cheering...