Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following in the wake of Tuesday's report that undergraduate enrollment at Harvard had sky-rocketed under the influence of the early end of the war to a new high of over 1300, there comes word that the annex to the northwest (called Radcliffe in some quarters) is emulating the Crimson expansion...
...cents a month for everything from garages to garbage cans are still a long way off; controls over installment buying in general are due to outlast reconversion. Reason: Regulation W was instituted on Sept. 1, 1941, as an anti-inflationary measure. And FRB fears that inflation would blow prices sky high if unlimited credit is permitted before supply meets the demand...
...troubled sky of a world at peace, the awful afterglow of the atomic bomb still lingered. Just before leaving for London, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent cackle about placing the bomb at the disposal of the United Nations Security Council, to threaten or punish an errant nation-while keeping the actual technique an Anglo-U.S. secret as long as possible...
Last week the first four (chosen from 50 applicants) were graduated as full-fledged "sky pilots," planned to spread their several wings over Africa, China and Mexico. Beaming with pride, Bob LeTourneau viewed them as forerunners of a "mighty armada of flying missionaries...
...bill, brotherly love and production soared and sang at Cleveland's bountiful, brash Jack & Heintz, Inc., makers of plane equipment. Associates (employes) luxuriated in hot showers and Turkish baths, cheek by jowl with pink-jowled President William S. Jack, got free insurance and Florida vacations. Out of their sky-high wages ($5,000 a year and up) they gratefully sank $15,000,000 in preferred stock in Jahco to finance a still rosier postwar future. But peace and cutbacks brought trouble to this production paradise. By last week Jahco's eight plants, two still owned by the Defense...