Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another important step of the present administration has been the establishment of the University Professorships, aimed at the accomplishment of the third goal of the Conant policies, inter-departmental unity and cooperation. Under this system, leading men in the University are given roving professorships, under which they are permitted to give any courses and undertake any research they wish...
...infinitely patient Isaac Burton Tigrett, 65, can get control of the bankrupt midwest Alton Railroad Co., as he was all set to do last week, he will have reached a goal he set for himself 34 years ago. Rail roader Tigrett's goal: to tie together a rail system reaching from the Gulf to the Great Lakes...
...bonds and stamps are being sold in the two civilian Houses, with 100 percent student and faculty participation the goal. Lowell House, with a goal of five thousand dollars, has already sold $100 in bonds and $75 in stamps to some twenty percent of the House, with $550 more pledged. Adams House reports sales of $125 in bonds and $50 in stamps, after one week of the drive, which ends June 1. In Eliot House all sales are handled through payroll deductions...
...phase was on: the campaign to capture Rangoon. This week General Slim's men were within 220 miles of that final goal. In twelve days they had pierced 70 miles south of Meiktila along the Mandalay-Rangoon railroad, and had overrun the Chauk oil fields, the Japs' biggest fuel source in Burma. The slaughter continued in a series of long thrusts and ambuscades; in the dozen days more than 3,500 Japs were killed...
...partner" who knew something about meat. Within three weeks he had bought from wholesalers (at about double the ceiling prices) nearly 1,300 pounds of beef, 176 pounds of veal, 250 pounds of smoked hams and pork shoulders, 225 pounds of bacon. A ton of meat was his goal, and he made it-without ever paying a red point. To show it could be done, he also bought 10,000 red stamps in the black market, at the going price of $6 a thousand...