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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sustain the program, the Commission advocates the use of federal funds through scholarships and direct grants. It also proposes a substantial increase in adult educational facilities, and more local community colleges--many of them for two years' training--as part of state-managed organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Education: General | 1/7/1948 | See Source »

Shame on Radioman Ratner. . . . Does radio aspire no higher than the "judgment of the majority of adult Americans?" No wonder I enjoyed it much more when I was in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Salzmann pointed to the Czech law which requires that every adult vote or face trial and the recent elections which U.S. observers declared "completely free" as showing the democratic spirit in Czechoslovakia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Czech University Student Skeptical Of 'Iron Curtain' | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Since radio, in Ratner's opinion, represents "the judgment of the majority of adult Americans," it must be right. The intellectuals who object to soap opera had better go read a book and leave radio to the masses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: RADIO | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...supply of dolls is 15% under last year. Reason: thousands of composition dolls were ruined in plants last summer; the high humidity prevented the composition from setting. But there are several new dolls. One has a face which can be made to resemble any child's (or adult's) by means of a color photograph reproduced on cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Claus Reports | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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