Word: americans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright Turban. Dr. Rebeca Carrion Cachot of the Peruvian National Museum of Archeology and Anthropology and Junius Bird of the American Museum loosened the ropes that tied the top of the bundle. The outer cloths, nearly as strong as new, peeled away easily. Inside were finer cloths, and perched on the top was a turban of red embroidery...
...Commodity Credit Corp. will soon be scraping the bottom of its financial barrel. Additional funds must be made available . . . if the Government is to keep its promises . . . to the American farmer under the present price support program." With these politicking words for the folks on the farm, Michigan's Republican Congressman Jesse Wolcott, 28 years in Congress as "a friend of the farmer," last week suggested a bill to raise the CCC's borrowing power to $5.7 billion, an increase of a cool $1 billion...
...Everyone. On the other hand, many U.S. exporters of machine tools, autos and farm equipment, feared that cheaper sterling would cut deeply into their markets in South America and overseas. On the whole, Harvard's Economist Sumner H. Slichter thought devaluation would benefit the U.S. economy. Said he: "American business concerns have been reluctant to go after business by cutting prices . . . Foreign goods at lower prices will stimulate at least a small amount of price-cutting in the U.S. . . . [And] any success of other countries in selling to the U.S. will simply increase their demand for American goods...
During the winter the staff will raise money, purchase books and food, and arrange transportation of the American faculty and administrators to Austria...
...seminar was started three years ago by three graduate students in the University as a school of American studies for Europeans. It is sponsored by the Student Council land draws its staff entirely from Harvard, though the faculty is chosen from college and universities all over the country...