Word: favorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concerned about money? In the light of increased costs and (for private colleges) sagging endowment income, they could scarcely think of much else. At the last session of the conference they turned to their biggest worry of all: whether or not to ask for federal aid. They decided in favor of asking-by endorsing a system of federal scholarships for college students. Such a plan would be in line with the $120 million proposal made by the President's Commission on Higher Education. But that didn't mean that the educators liked everything the commission had said. They...
...lowered its hood and roof, widened the seats and gained a suave look reminiscent of that car of distinction, Ford's old Lincoln Continental. A styling touch: the instrument-panel clock is in the center of a concentric-ringed radio speaker. Pontiac has dropped its Torpedo line in favor of the Chieftain. Both it and the Streamliner come as 90-h.p. sixes or 103-h.p. eights. Optional Hydra-Matic transmission ($185 extra) has proved so popular it will be built into 75% of all Pontiacs...
Once the United States is aware of its errors in China it can apply an opposite policy to southeast Asia to keep that area from Communist domination, he explained. One of this country's chief mistakes, Fairbank said, has been emphasis on granting military assistance to governments we favor or making use of our own military prowess. What the United States must concentrate on in Asia is agricultural assistance and selling the intellectual elements of our culture...
Wound Down. Guilden junked Waltham's method of selling through jobbers, in favor of direct sales to dealers, which saddled it with heavy new selling costs (and caused disgruntled jobbers to knock Waltham). He also threw out such .sidelines as speedometers, and discontinued cheap watches, to concentrate on expensive timepieces. Furthermore, his plant-like many in New England-was old and inefficient; his workers had had their wages almost tripled in seven years (78% of the cost of a watch is in labor), without a rise in productivity to make...
Wind Up? Things looked so bad for Waltham last spring that President Guild-en bowed out in favor of 42-year-old Paul P. Johnson, who had been hired as general manager. But Waltham needed more than new blood; it also needed new money, and it already owed Boston banks $4,000,000. Unable to get the cash, it went into receivership...