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...Manhattan's glittery Hotel New Yorker last week, more than 1,000 members of the National Retail Credit Association argued for four days and adopted a resolution: to tighten the screws on installment credit...
...Navy's program is going fairly well because it got started in peacetime, but naval constructors now see harder days ahead. Competing for limited U.S. shipways are 661 seagoing commercial vessels. The machine-tool bottleneck caused by aircraft and ordnance speed-up is beginning to tighten on the Navy. Naval shipbuilders are expanding 50%, 100%, 200%. Said a worried admiral last week: "It won't be enough, I'm afraid." In morale, in guts and ability to fight with what they have, the Navy's officers and men cannot be excelled. The quality of its command...
Designed to tighten up the requirements for Plan B Seniors and to liberalize requirements for course reductions, the new regulations make it impossible for Seniors to coast through their second half year courses without showing that they have completed any work...
...Nazis because they will hate Britain and America. This may be putting it too strongly, it is true. There is plenty of evidence of chafing under tyranny, of hope for liberation and triumph for democracy. There is idealism left in the conquered people no matter how much they tighten their belts. But there are also the "realists" who say that it's better to play ball with Hitler than starve. The pro-shipment line of argument is given point by Darlan's threat of convoy; a concern for his people and a ticklish situation forced him into this action...
...basketball and hockey are already gone, and other major and minor sports may soon be lopped off in the budget-balancing campaign. The H.A.A. has no choice; it must tighten its belt or get caught with its pants down. Alumni donations to the Endowment Fund are dribbling in pretty slowly. A play-for-pay football team would mop up the red ink in the ledger, but there's more chance of John Harvard's statue crawling under its pedestal than of this means being adopted. Last night's Crimson Network seminar of Harvard and B.C. footballers, though, came through with...