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...three years the London Times Educational Supplement and the Supplement's editor, energetic, fiftyish Harold Collett Dent, have been pitching thunderbolts, helping arouse the public until Parliament is cornered. A reform program, presented to Parliament by the head of the Board of Education, would use the first seven postwar years to create a system costing ?67,400,000 more annually, a more than 50% hike in the British education budget. Some proposed reforms...
...look inevitable, Leo Cherne persuaded Louis Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, to let him spend six weeks in the War Department digging up facts for an M-Day book, Adjusting Your Business to War. Shortly thereafter Louis Johnson went into political eclipse for three years (the Presi dent and much of the Administration seemed shocked at such a forthright indication that the U.S. might go to war). But the book added substantially to Leo Cherne's stature - and earnings. Since then his loose-leaf Business and Defense Co ordinator has been snapped...
...with the gun. He was nudging to pieces a fortress wall ten feet thick when another 18-pounder put an end to the gun and thawed to nothing the ill-disciplined army it had held together. But by that time the brutal nobility of a machine had made its dent in history: "The fall of Almeida was the beginning of that ebb tide which was to continue until the Allies should reach Paris. And Almeida fell because of the success of the revolt of the North. And it was the gun which was the cause of that success...
Typical reductions such as these are making a big dent in the rails' total estimated debt of over $10 billions. The continuation of this policy will put the roads in a position after the war to bid for traffic through rate reductions, and thus return to the fold of real competitive industry. This week ICC was working on a plan to make a certain amount of debt retirement mandatory...
...play on the forward line this year, Drake's consistency was the keynote of his excellence. The most accurate shot on the squad, he was used in all attempts to dent enemy twines via the penalty shot path. In the earlier games, the lineman kept close to Jack Calhoun, the eleven's leading scorer, but Calhoun later pulled away and finally led the Crimson tallying...