Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Profitable Transfer...
Struggle. The U.S. Army drafted him in 1942. He was sent to the U.S. Fifth Bomber Command in Brisbane, Australia as an aviation mechanic, but his flair for writing got him a transfer to the U.S. Air Force 10th Historical Unit. In uniform in Australia, and again as a sergeant in the Philippines, he sought out the Communist Party. "What impressed me most was the armed struggle and that the Party here was at a more advanced stage of revolution," he wrote to a friend. After his Army discharge, he took up Party propaganda work in New York, wrote...
High tuition tends to place most of Sarah Lawrence in one economic group, but the college is working hard to increase its scholarship ratio of 17 percent. Forty-three percent of the girls preped at private schools, 23 percent at public schools, and an abnormally high 24 percent are transfer students. Transfer students, explains Dean Raushenbush, usually do quite well at the school, because they always know why they are coming when they apply...
...Italian front. Now Vargas is back as Brazil's constitutionally elected President, but his country has held back from joining U.N. forces in Korea. Recently, at a time when a special U.S. mission was in Rio to talk over important development, loans, his administration decreed money-transfer regulations considered irksome to foreign investors. Acheson and his advisers believe it is high time to re-establish personal contacts between Vargas and top U.S. officials. The Secretary's visit, they expect, will open the way for a state visit by President Vargas to the U.S. later this year...
During the last thirty odd years under Shapley's administration, the Observatory has made its greatest strides forward. It was he who established the Agassiz Station at Harvard, the transfer of the southern station from Peru to South Africa, and with the collaboration of Menzel, the installation at Climax, Colorado. The new headquarters building in Cambridge was built under his direction, and provides fireproof housing for the nearly half million plates which contain Harvard's history of the sky for the past sixty years...