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...dormitory was reopened to freshmen this year because of an unexpectedly large Yardling enrollment. The swollen total was a result of the Admissions policy admitting more applicants than there are room for, to compensate for accepted applicants who enroll elsewhere...
...inability of the military leaders to select weapons caused the swollen defense budget. They could have continued to buy everything that might turn out to be useful in situations picked by the enemy if Eisenhower & Co. had not formulated a political policy which gives the military a standard of selection. Said Dulles...
...coffee, plus a similar rise in the price of cocoa, has been mainly responsible for the rise in the overall Dow-Jones commodity index, which last week was the highest in three years. The cocoa rise was caused not only by increased demand and bad weather but by the "Swollen Shoot" (a virus disease) cocoa-tree blight in Africa. As the price went from 30? to almost 60? a lb. in a year, the Government considered releasing some of its vast stocks of butter to users of cocoa butter for candy, but gave up the idea, since butter...
This trust has built up steadily with the expansion of financial centers in the United States. In the last 50 years, for instance, the number of banks has increased almost three-fold. Paralleling this surge are equally swollen opportunities for employees, including college-graduate trainees for executive post...
...occupational badges of a veteran foreign correspondent is his bulging passport. Recently one such correspondent arrived in New York with a worn, battered old passport which had swollen to 140 pages. He is John Graham Dowling, TIME'S correspondent in Southeast Asia, who had just flown in from Singapore with his wife and eight-month...