Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Down. Yale's President Charles Seymour picked a big businessman (American Brake Shoe's President Bill Given) to head a "committee on university development." It cost $7,500,000 to run Yale in 1941; more than $12 million in 1947. President Seymour wanted alumni to shell out ("The only alternative is deterioration in a Yale education"). Yale has already increased its tuition charges for undergraduates to $600, and doesn't feel it can raise them any more...
Just as Soapman Charles Luckman's high-powered voluntary save-food campaign was all fueled up and ready to go, Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson clomped a heavy foot on the brake. At a press conference in Chicago, tactless Clint Anderson casually dismissed meatless Tuesdays and eggless Thursdays as just "symbols of sacrifice." They were not intended "primarily to save food themselves," he said, but "to get the public in the frame of mind to conserve food." It was "like going to church on Sunday. . . . It's a reminder...
...season's cascade of antitrust suits, Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark had called for jail sentences for those who "conspire to maintain or increase present prices." Ever since, the antitrust division's 160 lawyers have been working overtime filing charges against leaders of the rubber, brake-lining, color film and oil industries (TIME, Sept. 1). All were accused of conspiracy to fix prices...
...space of four days, it demanded dissolution of alleged price-fixing agreements and competitive restraints among 1) eight major rubber companies and their Rubber Manufacturers Association; 2) twenty manufacturers of brake linings and clutch facings and their Brake Lining Manufacturers Association; 3) the Eastman Kodak Co. and Technicolor Inc., charged with monopolizing the processing of color film. This week, it impaneled a federal grand jury in Washington to investigate alleged price-fixing by oil companies...
...TIME, Sept. 23), the canon was "liberalized." Under the new rules, divorced church members who wanted to be remarried in the church could apply to the bishop of the diocese after one year, and the bishop could decide, under certain specific conditions, that the remarriage was justifiable. As a brake on the possibly sentimental leanings of individual bishops, a commission was set up to review (but not reverse) the bishops' decisions, and assemble a body of precedents...