Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked out an agreement aimed to conciliate the beet industry, to help Cuba and regain the U. S. market there. He proposed (TIME, Feb. 19) to quota sugar production for the beet industry and provide import quotas for the U. S. islands and for Cuba. With sugar made a basic commodity and imports controlled, a processing tax would be applied in the U. S. to subsidize beet sugar producers. The quotas which the President proposed were liberal to U.S. producers compared to past performances...
...more important of the two notices was published this morning. A council of the faculty of arts and sciences has been created, the group to comprise sixty members. As indicated by Dr. Conant's first annual report, this council, while new in name and organization, is not new in basic purpose. On the contrary, it is a plan to preserve in effective form an extremely desirable asset of Harvard's earlier life which, in recent years, had become unwieldy and ineffectual. We refer to the time-honored meetings of the whole faculty, with their president in the chair, for discussion...
...demise. Stimulated by an increased use of its productions in courses, it might be placed upon a firm financial basis. It should then be absorbed into the academic structure and its services placed at the disposal of other departments. Action along these lines should be taken immediately while the basic structure of the Foundation still offers the starting point for the proposed growth...
Brilliant lecturer and expert geologist, Professor Kirtley F. Mather is the dynamic force that makes Geology 1 the most enjoyable course offered here for passing off the science requirement. And what is more, it affords a fund of knowledge covering the most fascinating and basic theories of the earth itself...
...June are eligible for enrollment in the course. Applicants from this district, who must be between 20 and 27 years of age and single, after passing the required physical examination, are sent to the Naval Reserve Aviation Base at Squantum for one month's flight training, consisting of basic instruction in acronauties. Those who satisfactorily fulfill the requirements of the preliminary training period will be detailed to the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida, for the complete flying course...