Word: broads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national agoraphobia after World War I and Franklin Roosevelt's effort to buy a way out of World War II with Lend-Lease were only zigzags in the broad U.S. policy. F.D.R. understood that when, before Pearl Harbor, he told Congress: "Our most useful and immediate role is to act as an arsenal...
...broad outline, the deal called for Aramco to borrow $227,500,000 from a group of banks to spend on the venture. (Jersey Standard and Socony will guarantee $102,000,000 of the loans, all three companies will share the rest.) Aramco will build a 1,000-mile pipeline from the blistering oil-rich city of Dammam to the Mediterranean: it will construct a deep-water port at Dammam, build a short railroad, install additional refinery equipment and connecting pipelines. All this, it expects, will step up production in Arabia from the current 200,000 barrels...
Usually he arrives at his office on the 29th floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building at 9 a.m. He dislikes paper shuffling so much that his broad, flat-topped desk is almost always clean of everything except a big blotter. At 5 p.m. he usually leaves for home-and he tries not to take any work with him. On the way, he drops in at the University Club for a swim. He feels that a little exercise every day is the reason why he has not missed a day's work in 30 years...
...light of the recognized deficiencies in our schools, the remedy of which calls for some Federal financial aid, would some measure of Federal direction or control of the recipients of its aid be a good thing? On a broad policy level, should Washington have some practical voice in the aims and methods of the school systems which are so vital to the Nation's well-being? A quick yes-or-no answer to these questions is impossible. Their implications are too broad. What is clear, however, is that more widespread consideration of the possible merits and drawbacks of some Federal...
Object of the conference will be to outline the broad functions of the U.S. Commission and the procedures by which organizations and individuals can assist in obtaining support of its program...