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Word: wolfs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than General Mills' Chairman Harry A. Bullis: "This slackening was caused by three factors every man and woman and high school boy or girl knows about-the recent heavy income-tax collections, the bite of credit restrictions and the unusually large accumulated inventories left when the big bad wolf of scare-buying sneaked back to his lair." Bullis was not alarmed. "Except for tightened credit," said he, "these deflationary forces should end about the first of July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Spring Slide | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...waves of opinions generated in Dunster House by the conditions existing at the intersection of Memorial Drive and De Wolf Street typifies public reaction arising from a bevy of accidents at a particular location. As such, the reaction is commendable but the remedies proposed for the existing situation have lacked a thorough consideration of the nature of the dangers involved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Opinion | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...signal is not a cure-all, and in this case would not justify the expense of its installation, because it ignores the special characteristics of the De Wolf Street corner as well as failing to remedy the basic origin of danger. It is the breadth of the intersection that is the underlying cause of mishaps which occur there. There is no clearly defined point of entry for cars to move on to Memorial Drive, and it is possible for vehicles to continue from De Wolf Street onto the Drive without slackening speed but utilizing the full expanse of the corner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Opinion | 4/28/1951 | See Source »

...University is forced into a paradoxical situation. After it buys a property, it sometimes finds that it cannot just evict the tenants, even though they may be living in old, run-down houses. The University ran into this problem when it bought 16, 18, 20, and 22 De Wolf Street, a block of ugly tenements behind Dunster House. The rest Harvard collects covers only maintenance costs...

Author: By Alan I. W. frank, | Title: Cambridge: City of Education and of Slums; Its Experts Plan, Hope but Rarely Get Results | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

After weeks of crying wolf, Manly Fleischmann, boss of the National Production Authority, last week trotted out his Controlled Materials Plan. Its howl seemed to be worse than its bite. Starting July 1, CMP will tightly control all steel, copper and aluminum in defense production, thus put an end to the tangle of stopgap priorities NPA has used up to now. But civilian producers will be untouched by CMP under the present plan. They will be left to scramble for the metals that are left over, but whether the metals will be the bulk-or only a small part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAW MATERIALS: Enter CMP | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

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