Word: assets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homework, spend generously on their libraries. They are not afraid to injure young psyches by publishing academic honors or assigning students to groups according to ability. About half the schools give superior students college-level work. Only one principal bothered to mention his physical plant as a major asset; only a few mentioned extracurricular activities. But their comments spoke volumes: "I am never happy except with superior work." "We simply refuse to accept mediocrity." "We started high and raised our standards from year to year." "When in doubt, give the lower grade...
Ever since the U.S. seized General Aniline & Film Corp. as a German enemy asset in 1942, the Justice Department has fought a running battle to hang on to it. Last week the Swiss government, which argues that General Aniline was really controlled by Swiss and other non-enemy interests, asked the United Nations International Court of Justice at The Hague to decide who really owns General Aniline. It is a rich prize: under U.S. stewardship, New York-based General Aniline has grown into a vast chemical and camera-supply (Ansco) empire with assets of $163 million and sales last year...
Working on the news board offers a chance to improve the quality and speed of your writing (a valuable asset on exams and papers) and an opportunity to meet Administration and faculty members...
...Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy to study and report on peaceful uses of atomic energy. As a pal and protege of the committee's vice-chairman, New Mexico's Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, McKinney has an influential friend on Capitol Hilla valuable asset when it comes to keeping Congress friendly toward IAEA...
With the promise of new capital came an assurance that the Herald Tribune would again cultivate its biggest asset: the tradition of serious, independent journalism that started with Founder Horace Greeley and under the late Publisher Ogden Reid Sr. earned the paper the reputation of being a newspaperman's newspaper.* In support of this aim, the Trib plans to add up to 16 columns to its news space and put its emphasis on the first rather than the second half of Brownie Reid's credo: "More News in Less Time...