Word: americans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fancy, the huge U.S. corporation is a world apart, operating under mysterious rules and philosophies that are of little concern -or interest - to the housewife or the corner butcher. Businessmen know that this is not so - and perhaps their best proof is the world's largest firm: the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Few corporations in the world are as intimately woven into the life of a nation as A.T.& T. It not only helped the nation grow and prosper, but helped make the telephone a universal instrument that changed the world's mores, entered its drama and literature...
...amount of money necessary to allow career diplomats to occupy the so-called expensive embassies has been estimated at $5 million a year, a miniscule proportion of a present-day American budget. President Eisenhower's indifference to this very real problem reflects an unwarranted satisfaction with a policy that allows men without diplomatic experience and--in some cases--familiarity with the country and language, to serve as Ambassadors to Italy, France, Spain and Great Britain--to name just...
...justification whatever for the conclusion that only 15 per cent of the American can be seriously educated," Hutchins asserted. He called the effort to educate everybody to the limit of his capacity "indispensable...
Recent criticism by American educators of efforts toward establishing nationwide student testing programs for college met with varied response from University officials yesterday...
...speech this week at an educational conference in Atlantic City, Fred M. Raubinger, New Jersey Commissioner of Education, labeled such programs "harmful to American schools." They "tend to rigidify the curriculum," he said, and cause "the dead hand of uniformity" to fall upon high school scholastic courses...