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Created in 1946 as the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), the commission was expected to fill the gap left by the demise of a similar federal program in the aftermath of World War II. Previously--in 1943--the state had approved the Massachusetts Committee on Racial and Religious Understanding in response to racerelated violence around the country...
...order to lead a class, prospective teacher-students fill out an application describing their proposed class and why they are qualified to teach the material. Some of the class leaders have special skills in the area they teach, others teach because they are interested in the topic, and they learn about the subject on their own before the HILR session begins...
...that a scaled-down dollar has made American goods competitively priced, factories have been running at nearly top speed this year to fill orders from customers at home and overseas. During August, U.S. factories, mines and utilities operated at 83.7% of capacity, the highest figure since 1980. A few & industries are approaching their output limits, which means that rising U.S. demand may force buyers to look overseas for their supplies...
...Metropolis, a railway car stocked with projector and films to recall the propaganda push of early Soviet cinema, a Salvador Dali collage with the probing eyes he designed for Hitchcock's Spellbound, and a couch inspired by Mae West's lips. Elsewhere, actors stroll about in character to fill in the historical blanks. In a room labeled "Cinema Goes to War," for example, "soldiers" roll about in trenches. Nearby is a majestic staircase canopied by MOMI's own high-camp Erecthyon: six sculpted muses of the silent cinema (Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish and Rudolph...
Superintendents will conduct fire safety inspections besides annual room condition checks this year for the first time, Levesque said. New procedures call for them to fill out a checklist noting all overloaded electrical outlets, inadequate fireplace equipment or electrical cords covered by rugs. Mechanical problems such as unplugged alarms are also on the list, Levesque said...