Word: establish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season whose musicomedies were resolutely undistinguished, musical drama -the one new form to establish itself on Broadway-strengthened its hold. Gian-Carlo Menotti's smash hit The Consul (along with The Cocktail Party] had every cocktail party in Manhattan buzzing. Marc Blitzstein's Regina died at the boxoffice, but it was very much alive on the stage...
...Schuman plan would establish a single steel and coal market for France and Germany, plus any other European countries that want to join. It would abolish customs duties and discriminatory freight rates on coal and steel. A joint international authority of the member nations would be set up to run the industries, with the specific tasks of 1) modernizing production; 2) supplying coal and steel to France, Germany and other members of the combine "on equal terms"; 3) developing joint exports to other countries...
Some $125 million of the credits already had been approved by President Truman's National Advisory Council. All of that sum will go to liquidate Argentina's outstanding commercial debts and help re-establish her good credit abroad. In addition, friendly, persuasive Cereijo had got a promise of $75 million from the National City Bank and Chase National Bank of New York, and the First National Bank of Boston, to finance future purchases of badly needed farm machinery from U.S. manufacturers...
...Harvard Society for Minority Rights and the Radcliffe Association for the Advancement of Colored People have one answer. They propose to raise funds by means of a jazz concert this Friday and other drives next year to establish a special Negro Scholarship Fund at Harvard. They point out in defense of their drive that the Negro standard of living is appreciably lower than the national average; that Negroes are handicapped by a poor secondary school system, particularly in the South, and that therefore the ordinary scholarship opportunities for Negroes are insufficient...
...commission's recommendations : boost the grade-school teacher's pay, give him job tenure, set up more attractive retirement plans, and establish the same salary scales for elementary-and high-school teachers. One likely result: some of the growing surplus of trained high-school teachers (50,000 this year) will be attracted to the lower grades...