Word: america
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Academic freedom in America faces increasing danger, three speakers at last night's Young Progressive Forum in Emerson D agreed...
...logical answer to the Administration's objection has been proposed by the Romance Languages Department. This answer is embodied in the so-called Sweet Briar Plan. Under this, qualified juniors from any recognized college in America may study in France for one year. They are under the supervision of an American professor who accompanies them, and are allowed to elect courses at any of the outstanding Paris institutions. This plan, administered by Sweet Briar College, is carried out under the auspices of a committee of the Institute of International Education composed of professors from Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth...
Last week it came down. The Celanese Corp. of America, third biggest U.S. yarn producer, trimmed its prices of rayon (acetate staple fiber) by 12.5% to 42? a lb., lowest in its history. As other producers, weavers, converters and jobbers began cutting prices to the new pattern, the whole industry joined in its first big postwar price battle...
While Pan Am's President Juan Trippe proudly looked on, Margaret smashed a bottle of champagne against the Clipper America. Pan Am, which expects to put the clipper into service within a few weeks, hopes to get 19 more of the double-decked, 75-passenger monsters by late summer. With them, said Trippe, he will have "sufficient equipment to provide low-cost tourist-class service to Europe and to the Orient." Foreign governments willing, Trippe would cut transatlantic tourist rates to $225 one way and $405 round trip (present cost...
...America shows that it intends to support Europe against Russia, such action will "put the brakes" on the Politburo, he asserted...