Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time came last week, just after President Davila had announced the creation of six great corporations (modeled on the trusts of Russia) to nationalize Chilean industry and foreign trade. But Provisional President Blanche's time was short. Col. Grove was still on Juan Fernandez Island, but another colonel of aviation was at hand, Col. Arturo Merino Benitez. He followed his predecessor's precedent, forced Blanche out of office. But only for a few hours. The Army remained loyal to General Blanche. Troops were rushed to El Bosque airport and Col. Benitez with 90 of his aviators prudently took...
...with the static system of history. The controls of the static age, namely the price system of production, are opposed to the controls which must govern the dynamic age of Technology. Under the price system the accumulation of wealth means the accumulation of debt certificates?wealth proceeds by the creation of debt. The present total accumulation of public, private and corporate debt in the U. S. amounts to $200,000,000,000, or expressed in another way, claims against the producing machinery of the U. S. have doubled since...
Aside from the cultural significance of the awakening of the "depressed" classes their liberation must result in the creation of economic demands by the millions whose inheritance has denied them everything but the right to live. How is India, already a country of swarming population, to meet these new demands which once stimulated are impossible to ignore...
College means a sacrifice for a far greater number than usual this year and for this reason it is well to question honestly whether Harvard offers its students an education. The process of education has been defined as the "maturing of certain views of life and the creation of certain demands on life" or, in other words, the function of education is to stimulate and enlarge a man's philosophy. Accepting this definition of education it becomes impossible to maintain that Harvard educates any but a small fraction of its undergraduates. The majority of graduates have benefited in many ways...
Additional financial assistance to members of various departments of the University, notably the College and Business School, will feature Harvard's opening this year. Creation of a large number of jobs for the benefit of students, in the libraries, dining halls, administrative offices, and so forth, under consideration for some time, has just been announced...