Word: fractionization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without a war there were $2,500,000,000 in bonds sold. That's only a fraction of the foreseeable cash needs of America rising to its colossal destiny, and it will fall, it must fall, it has fallen to the broadcasters of the U.S. to disregard all former ideas of a proper amount of 'free time' to give any Government agency. The Treasury is perhaps incapable of being 'popular' in the frivolous sense, but it must have 'popular' support in the wider sense....Radio will perform a real service if it applies...
Going into the final event, which was the 200 yard free style relay. Tech was leading 31 to 28. The Crimson natators won this race by a fraction of a second, and it looked as though they had thereby taken the entire meet. But the event was awarded to the Tech mermen on the claim that one of the Crimson tankmen had "jumped the gun" mid-way in the relay, thus automatically giving the race, and the meet to the Freshman boilermakers...
...intensity of the dispute and the stubbornness with which the parties stick to their positions in spite of the great emergency that confronts the country, seem out of all proportion to the minute fraction of the individual workers . . . who have not joined the union...
...advantages. It seems to us that the union shop is a fair compromise between the one-sidedness of the closed shop and the viciousness of open shop, company union, or yellow dog contracts. Why the steel companies will not admit the C.I.O. right to force that last diminutive fraction of the workers to join seems strange to us. We do not feel that the five per cent should benefit from the work of the ninety-five...
...stations out of 18 in the East without advertising. The Crimson Network today has an excellent transmission system, limited only by lack of funds. It would be necessary for the Network to accept only enough advertisements to pay its debts and operating expenses, which would amount to only a fraction of its broadcasting time. Already a considerable number of national advertisers are known to be cager to pay for programs on Harvard's station. The only thing that is needed, then, is a green light from the Administration...