Word: tapers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Hanford predicted yesterday that the policy of the Faculty Committee on War Service credit, of which he is chairman, would become less strict as the peak enrollments of the next two terms taper off. One of the present policy's chief objectives is to make it possible to admit a maximum number of new veterans during this critical period...
...peacetime rate. But it was only a question of time till cotton buyers and speculators who had spread themselves too thin realized that the comparatively small U.S. carryover from this year (7,500,000 bales) would nevertheless be ample, and that textile mills were bound to taper buying. That time came last week, with a rush...
...Engineering, declared that undergraduates now concentrating in Engineering Sciences should indicate on their study cards courses they wish to take during the fall term and whether they are listed in the catalogue or not. The Engineering Faculty will offer undergraduate courses according to the demand in order to "taper off" the effects of the departmental shift, he said...
...Prices. The Federal Government prepared to taper off its $1.8 billion a year program for wartime food subsidies. By next June all payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...
...expects that military buying will taper off and hoarding ease after Germany quits. Said he: "A month after V-E day the present pinch in cigarets will be over...