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...through Chittagong, an overgrown fishing village with a commercial façade. Determined to transform Chittagong into a major port, the government hired Hans Hansen, a Finnish-born American citizen, who was a stevedore before the war. Hansen has cut unloading time in half, increased wharfage space threefold, and imported barges from the Philippines for offshore loading. His job is a shining, rare example of Point Four...
...advance made by freshmen was in the number making first rank. At midyears of last year, 10 men out of 1889 gained top ranking; this year 22 freshmen are in Group I, out of a class that numbers 229 fewer members. On a percentage basis, the increase was almost threefold...
Blueprint. Ewing's complaint was threefold: 1) the nation was not spending enough on health; 2) the spending power was not evenly distributed; and 3) because illness strikes without warning, even a thrifty, budget-careful family may have its savings wiped out and be forced into debt by a catastrophic or chronic illness. To allow the nation to spend more on its health, Ewing had detailed blueprints for building more hospitals, boosting the output of doctors, dentists and nurses, and beefing up public health services. Few argued with these aims, though many-especially doctors fearing federal interference with their...
...statement supporting his article, "The Threefold Crisis in Our Universities," in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Harris claimed that the financial pinch today has forced college professors, even at Harvard to do extra work to support themselves. "On fashionable Brattle St. professors have taken in borders...
Like a sales manager giving a quiet pep talk, he urged British industry to go out and grab a larger slice of the dollar market. He proposed two "practical, realizable goals"- a fivefold increase in the number of British firms engaged in exporting to the U.S.; and a threefold increase of British exports to the dollar market (from $600 million to $1.8 billion...