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Hardly a day after Abbott's announcements, shortages appeared and prices spurted. Overnight, cars were up as much as $500. In Montreal, spinach jumped from 12? a lb. to 28?, green beans from 30? to 43?, lettuce from 16? to 29?, electric toasters from $12.50 to $15.63, refrigerators from $350 to $437. The spurt brought back price ceilings this week on processed foods...
...largest percentage increase in the University was registered by the Trade Union Fellowships, with a 66 2/3 spurt beyond last spring's nine. Largest numerical increase took place at the Law School in a total addition...
Even with oil production at slightly better than 5,000,000 barrels a day, up 12% over 1945, demand this winter is expected to outstrip supply by as much as 10%. This shortage made news; oil also took a spurt in price...
...Census Bureau reported that the U.S. had gained approximately 2,279,000 residents in 1946, the greatest one-year population spurt in its history. Estimated total U.S. population...
...Practice these obstacles spelled "studies" and "recommendations" handed down with little eclat from an ivory tower visible to the eyes of a handful of men. With the possible exceptions of '26 and the three-year spurt capped by Langdon Marvin in 1940, few Councils made themselves known to their constituents...