Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...class of '47 has been allocated in approximately equal numbers to each House, with the latest totals reaching 427. All three of the Houses are filled to capacity and arrangements are being made to handle just under a thousand civilians this summer...
Matson's hopes are high, but they run smack into CAB policy. Several years ago CAB scotched a deal between Matson and Pan American Airways (for whom Matson acts as Pacific agents) whereby Matson and Pan Am would be equal partners in a new company furnishing peacetime air transport over the Pacific from the U.S. CAB which recently ordered American Export Airlines to divorce itself from its parent shipping company, is opposed to the ownership of airlines by carriers...
Thirteen million pounds of aircraft would equal more than 2,000 individual planes of the average weight (6,400 lb.) produced so far this year, or more than 200 huge transports like Douglas' new DC-4 (which weighs 32 tons loaded). But dark, saturnine Donald Wills Douglas (whose friends say "his rare moments of elation correspond to the ordinary man's mild depressions") is nowhere near through making production records. His three big new Eastern plants will not be in full production till midsummer, and last week he announced the lease of still another huge factory...
...Payoff. Two weeks ago, Premier Yovanovich told the Cabinet that the Allies desired an unequivocal statement of policy, that only one statement of policy was possible: a united Yugoslavia, with equal federal rights for Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, based on democratic liberties and a progressive social regime. Up jumped Serb Liberal Grol: "This is what we have wanted all along and what you have prevented all along. If this is to be our new policy, it is exactly you who cannot be in charge...
...equal importance to the topnotch morale of the unit was the happy statement of Capt. Bernard A. Merriam, company commander, after drill and inspection on Saturday: "An officer of the inspector general's department has looked this outfit over, and given a rating of excellent. You can't expect any better word than that. A great deal of credit goes to the cadre, but I wanted you all to know the verdict...