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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its inception, the Window Shop has continued to welcome these displaced persons, many of whom began work unable to speak English. Channeled in by church groups and welfare agencies, immigrants spent in this store the years needed to gain citizenship. Here, a combination of German and English helped case them into the American culture. Transforming lawyer to chef, college student to salesgirl, for some the shop was merely an orientation center; but many have remained there permanently...
...Communities, in return, are often hostile and impatient with the migrating airmen. (March A.F.B., near Riverside, Calif., paid its enlisted men in $2 bills one week, then politely pointed out its importance to the community's business when Riverside cash registers were soon filled with $2 bills.) To gain stability for the long pull, a ready military force must have the resources and privileges of its own community. There is something inefficient about a policy of which an Air Force pilot says-as one did last week to a TIME correspondent: "This kind of flying is worth almost...
Francis M. Rogers, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, estimated that the number of his students would suffer a loss of 25 and gain of 50. Added to the present enrollment figure of 1,359, the not increase should raise the spring term total to about 1,385. This is a rather small class, judging by the standards of the past four years, when enrollment totals have been as high...
When all of Dwight Eisenhower's proposed expenditures and income from the housing program (including the sale of Fanny May mortgages) are balanced, his housing budget for fiscal 1955 shows a startling final figure: a net gain to the Federal Government of $277 million...
...Harmony. The lesson Father Purcell draws is that worker allegiance is not a cake that company and union divide, with one side's gain being the other side's loss. It is to the interest of both sides, says Father Purcell, to nurture "dual allegiance." The company should accept the union as "a good and even necessary institution." The union should "view the company as a partner, and not as an enemy or a threat...