Word: burdens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...projects or dust and interest collecting treasury acounts, could increase their school budgets and raise salaries. To refuse to do the latter on grounds of economy would be to practice a very foolish economy indeed. But other states, because of tax laws which throw part of the school financing burden upon local communities, while at the same time severely restricting the possible sources of local revenue, impose an impossible problem for themselves. Similarly, too much state taxation is laid upon real estate values and not enough upon income an incongruous situation if finer schools are the goal...
...airplane has been more buffeted by the "Is it safe?" controversy than Lockheed's four-engine, 60-passenger Constellation. Last week the black-eyed Connie found an outspoken champion in Assistant Secretary of Commerce (for air) William A. M. Burden. A knowing airman, Bill Burden told the Senate committee investigating air safety that "disproportionate attention" had been paid to the Connie's "occasional mishaps...
...other slight modifications made, the Connie, "already a fine airplane, became undoubtedly the most advanced airplane of its class . . . with respect to safety." The subsequent crash of a T.W.A. Constellation in Eire, killing 13, said he, was due to faulty maintenance of altimeters, not faulty design. Concluded Bill Burden: "The grounding action and resultant publicity have worked an undue-hardship on the Constellation...
...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...
...little self-help in the form of repatriating some of the 100,000 working men who daily contradict British need by their presence in Palestine. With London finally squaring up to the realities of its 1947 Empire, the U. S. State Department might be willing to share the burden of the Palestine problem and a Congress that is already talking Lend-Lease would be a great deal more amenable to renewed grants of American industrial reserves and know-how-but only if the limits of the Empire are sharply re-defined...