Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main inflationary pressures exist, he said. In the first place, an increased number of wage-earners and large wages have meant increased buying. In the second place, the selling price of a product is forced up by excessive manufacturing costs...
...Approach. Nearly any competent city planner can lay out a perfectly planned city on paper. But how to reorganize gradually cities that already exist? Planner Saarinen calls his scheme organic decentralization...
...jobless, and the number promises to grow larger. McNutt is pessimistic about the chances of doing anything much about the New York situation, because the Army is reluctant to place important war contracts in an area so vulnerable. A peculiar feature of the situation is that serious labor shortages exist in Connecticut, Long Island, and New Jersey, but New Yorkers have trouble getting jobs there. Cause of the trouble, says McNutt: a combination of anti-Jewish prejudice, dislike of "city slickers," and the New Yorkers' ingrained reluctance to leave their city...
Employment Service will serve as a national teacher placement agency, steering jobless teachers from glutted areas (e.g., New York City) to the places where shortages exist; 2) a teaching program to salvage the illiterate 10,000,000; 3) a plan to cope with teacher shortages in two critical war subjects-200 colleges and universities will give free courses this summer to convert teachers of other subjects (English, Latin, etc.) into math and physics teachers...
...growth in clarity and unity during the critical fortnight when his shattered forces ("an alien army in an alien land") retreated across New Jersey. "On the bleak road he now traveled a fortitude was required that could draw no sustenance from the past. . . . All that mattered now was to exist...