Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Munoz and his men are so unashamedly pleased with Operation Bootstrap that their formula for the future is more of the same. Goals: 2,500 factories by 1975, with a standard of living then equal to that of the U.S. now. The U.S. recession is hurting the island, and with unionization and rising wages, the tax-exemption law, which expires at the end of 1963, is left as the main incentive. But in a single week recently, U.S. investors were in Puerto Rico to study prospects in plastic webbing, dresses, sportswear, tourist hotels, motorboat trailers, wall tiles, plastic toys, scientific...
Centering largely on a description of Moscow University, Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, stressed the "driving dedication to science and technology" which makes a Russian scientific education "equal to the best this country has to offer." He gave much lower marks, however, to Soviet instruction in humanities and the social sciences...
...South because of the lack of money, but the difference is rapidly disappearing. One reason for difficulty in having adequate educational facilities is the fact that present Southern law requires separate school systems for white and Negro students. A country of 3,000 residents will theoretically need equal, and rigidly separate facilities. Thus where one building would suffice, two are constructed. Further evidence shows that some Negro schools are nothing more than hovels. Of course, there are some white hovels also, but this fact is hardly justification for the poor Negro school...
...strong prejudices seem to have set themselves deep in American attitudes towards education: First, demands for equal rights often fail to recognize unequal talents--many complain that to select certain gifted students for special instruction violates the democratic principle. Secondly, American emphasis on material success measured in terms of financial profit scorns the academic world as largely useless, except in its strictly vocational manifestations...
...great morass--the American "Leveling" Philosophy, the equating of equal opportunity with "sameness"--came Herschell Podge. His teachers were underpaid, and his school turned most of its limited funds into a complex hierarchy of extra-curricular activities, the financing of a football team and rereleased motion picture entertainment for lunch period ennui. If Herschell were a colored boy, he wouldn't get decent school facilities in a good many sections of the South. If Herschell came from a Plains state, his high school probably couldn't offer a course in physics...