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Yale Athletic Director Robert Hall announced this week his intention to trim the estimated annual $700,000 athletic budget in order to balance prospects of a reduced enrollment and "a probable sports deficit for the 1950-51 campaign...
...edged and bitter, and around its roots, the soot is thick in the spongy soil. Freight trains chuff across the flatlands; across them, too, each day, rumble the gritty, hard-seated trains of the Jersey Central and the prosperous Pennsylvania's Bay Head line, carrying commuters to the trim farms and tidy suburbs of New Jersey's shore towns...
...combination of depression and increased truck and barge competition almost wrecked Central. It suspended dividends, and its stock, which had once hit $184, fell to $4.75. Control of the entire $700,000,000 system could have been bought for only $3,300,000. By trimming costs to the bone, President Lawrence Downs and his successor, John L. Beven, managed to pull the road through, though it was touch & go. One time, the papers were even drawn up to put it into bankruptcy. World War II sent the road highballing again, and Beven began using earnings to trim the $368 million...
Trio. Another trim package of Somerset Maugham short stories, fragile but handled with care by the British producers of Quartet (TIME...
Trio. Another trim package of Somerset Maugham short stories, fragile but handled with care by the British producers of Quartet (TIME...