Word: giving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill becomes an ordinance in its present form, a local car owner can apply to the Cambridge Board of License Commissioners to be allowed to park between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. in front of a building or lot when the owner will give his permission. A permit will cost $2 for 30 days, and a new application will be required at the end of that period...
Three arguments have turned up most frequently in support of the program. A group of high officers, including General Omar N. Bradley, have been supporting it from a military angle, claiming that strengthening the treaty countries would give us European bridgehead in case of war, that "abandosing these countries with a promise of later liberation" is militarily unsound. Bradley and his colleagues believe that the arms aid could enable Western Europe to hold on until the U. S. could "funnel in forces...
...large-scale price support plan involves the problem of overproduction by farmers because the government is always giving them a good price. This problem is handled by marketing quotas, drawn up by the farmers themselves. A quota limits the amount of a commodity a farmer can market, if he wants to receive subsidy benefits. This method, in effect, gives the farmers monopoly powers. Under the Brannan plan, the quota system would be greatly expanded. This part of the plan has raised the howl of "government control" in Congress. The main argument against the quota system is that it is liable...
...income for scholarships is now about $400,000 a year, and we estimate that we now need about $600,000 a year available for financial aid to students if we are to give the same measure of financial aid to students that we did before...
...course, the College wished to expand its number of scholarship awards. We would like to increase our awards to freshmen from 20 to 25 per cent of each entering class, and also to increase the aid that we can give to upperclassmen. And toward this objective we are laying long-range plans which will require the increase in scholarship endowments as well as more effective use of loans and employment...