Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected to feel out the new U.S. policy by offensives in areas far from Greece. Poland's press bitterly complained that, after such "expansion by the means of loans," the U.S. would not have enough left over for "needy countries" (such as Poland). Obviously looking for assistance from closer friends, Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and Industrial Minister Hilary Mine had just junketed to Moscow for joint-defense and trade talks...
Taft himself has emphasized the importance of the situation when he said recently that "nothing is closer to the welfare of the people" and that "private enterprise has never provided necessary housing for the lowest income groups." The bill which he co-authored provides for a forty-year program of low-rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. In the next four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance...
...just this type of activity that was the core of the original House Plan. Students were to find in their House closer contact both with each other and with members of the Faculty, thereby adding another dimension to the lecture system of education. Tutorial lay at the heart of the plan, and it is the tutorial system's current dehydrated state that has caused the loss of much of the value of the Houses. The method by which students will choose their House reflects this state: in the thirties interviews with staff members of both first and second choices were...
White-maned Frank Lloyd Wright, as usual, went further: he urged that all colleges should shut down for ten years (they were too departmentalized). Also, the U.S. Presidency and State Department should be abolished, and the capital moved closer to the heart of the country. Wright thought cities should be abandoned. "The city," Wright averred, "is a stimulus similar to alcohol, ending in similar degeneracy or impotence-for no city can maintain itself by way of its own birth rate, and a glance at history shows us that all civilizations have died of their cities...
...with the newer rates CABoss Landis intends to keep a closer watch on airline financing. Many lines have stubbornly chosen to go into debt to buy new equipment rather than issue stock and thus weaken the holdings of those now in control. From now on, CAB intends to seek more authority over line financing...