Word: term
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disarming Witness. When his nomination for a third five-year term on FPC came up for discussion in a Senate subcommittee last week, Senators from the oil states dusted off some of Olds's old clippings. The subcommittee "discovered" them with righteous horror, although the same stories had been aired on the Senate floor five years earlier. Olds, a plain-featured man with jutting ears and a smooth manner of speech, testified that he had written as he did "because I believed radical writing was needed in the 'golden '20s' to shock the American people...
...This term's enrollment of almost 1300 is an all-time high. Most of the directors, taking into consideration the recent drop in employment and slight economic regression, had previously expected the number of "students" to drop at this time. Although most classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable...
Polly Seliger Egelson '51 claims she got the idea for the group while day-dreaming on her way to class earlier in the term. She had no trouble finding the requisite number of dabblers in the arts to band together into a chartered organization...
...those early days members did all their climbing in the summer, returning to college to spend beery winter evenings in praise of their achievements. Finally it occurred to someone that there were, after all, some rocks in Boston; and from then on the club supplemented its oral activities with term-time climbing...
...troubles in the high tax brackets. If they struck oil, they could deduct 50% to 75% of the drilling expenses from their income, and later deduct 27½% of their annual gross from the well, as "depletion." Moreover, they could sell the well later and pay only a long-term capital gains (25%) tax on the profit. If the well was dry, they could write off the whole cost as a loss, thus cut down taxable income. Though many a hopeful had hit nothing but sand and salt, from Texas to Utah last week a handful of luckier stars...