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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hazing day," a phenomenon unknown in the 'Cliffe Yard, will lead off tonight's agenda, which also includes the problem of publicizing the workings of Student Government and the machinery of Student Government organizations such as judicial boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 4 'Cliffe Students Off to Conference At Mount Holyoke | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...Unknown Hazards. Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp., already operating Y-12 and K-25 for the Government on a cost-plus basis, recently took over X-io on the same terms. When it did, it tried to reduce the X-10 higher wage rates to the same level as the other plants. Some 800 X-10 employees objected. Employment at X-10 was supposed to involve hazards of "a largely unknown nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fission on Two Fronts | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...girl (name unknown) was attending a meeting of students at Prague's Charles University. A Communist organizer asked the students to express their political opinions. The girl rose and defied him: "The time when debates in this country do any good has passed," she snapped. Her fellow students cheered. Then the Communist tried to get the students to make nominations to one of his "action committees." He turned down as "unreliable" several names suggested. The girl rose again. She asked: "If you are going to select the candidates, why ask us to elect someone?" That broke up the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Struggle for Survival | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

Tired of Waiting? Michigan's Hayes Manufacturing Corp. (auto parts), which recently declared its first dividend (15^ a share) in 18 years, was having trouble getting it to its stockholders. As several hundred of the dividend checks came back marked "address unknown," the company conscientiously ran newspaper ads in an effort to track down the lost or strayed stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...impoverished childhood. A publicity genius (Fred Mac Murray), who has long loved her but, with a pressagent's shyness, dared not speak of the matter, takes her body back to the home town for burial. He is angry, and miserable, because the picture for which this unknown gave her life will not be released. He bribes every church in town to ring its bells, without surcease or mercy, for three days & nights, in her memory. The ensuing uproar makes headlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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