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...street last week, came to a stop beside a filling station at the corner of Connecticut and N Streets. Swiftly the boxlike affair was unloaded. In exactly 3½ hours, nine men had turned it into a two-bedroom house, ready for occupancy. In this eye-opening way, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. put on exhibition its prefabricated house, built by its subsidiary, Wingfoot Homes...
...July 1945, William J. Bender '27, present Counsellor for Veterans, took over his job and made preparations to handle tire vast numbers of veterans who would apply for admission during what was expected to be the peak years of 1945 and 1946. With six assistant counsellors, a staff of over 60 persons, and supervision of a nursery for veterans' children, an agency for veterans' wives, and a housing office to help accommodate married veterans, in addition to the operation of the general office, the Counsellor has processed the 3,981 veterans now enrolled in the University. Over 1,200 letters...
...rival, lanky Hunter Lott, 31. (Philadelphia, where squash racquets got its start in the U.S., is still the game's top center.) Both came through the prelims easily, clashed in the finals. Lott won the first game, but then began to tire. Charlie Brinton still had his old mixture of low killers and tantalizing drop shots-and five years on Lott. The winner: Brinton...
...began to think in terms of shortages and higher prices to ease the shortages. The higher prices are still forestalled by ceilings-but last week some Midwestern farmers were asking and getting such bonuses for a carload of grain as six pairs of nylon stockings, a heavy-duty truck tire or a fine bird...
...Wanted at Home. Domestic consumption of cotton has been dropping steadily for three years. Textile mills, short of manpower, have used less. And synthetics, which have been getting steadily cheaper and better, have taken over cotton markets. Example: in 1935, no rayon was used in U.S. tire fabrics; last year, tire makers used the equivalent of about half a million bales of cotton. (Rayon is now actually cheaper than cotton when wastage in manufacture is counted...