Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freer Trade? All the dislocation and hullabaloo would be amply balanced if devaluation accomplished its immediate purpose: a breathing spell for Britain. Beyond that lay an even more important goal: freeing trade from phony exchange rates. The $4.03 pound was phony because a pound would not buy in Britain as much as $4.03 would...
...first aims of the new organization (set up in May, 1947) was to obtain the admission of 30 percent of poor workmen's and peasants' sons into faculties," the NSA reports. "Today this goal has been achieved. All universities are state universities, and are 'entirely supported' by the state. Fees are in proportion to the income of the student' family...
...Public Health Reports, Dr. William H. Sebrell outlined the campaign's goal: not only to prevent goiter, but to spread the word that iodine is essential to bodily health. The thyroid gland takes up iodine from the bloodstream and uses it to form a hormone, thyroxine. In turn, thyroxine regulates many body functions, including heat production, brain development, sexual maturity, and the growth of hair, skin and bones. A shortage of such an element as iodine, said Dr. Sebrell, may not be indicated dramatically by serious illness: "Just as often, or oftener, the result may be lowered efficiency, nervousness...
...change-or Clark and Cumley have proved themselves topnotch promoters. Circulation has already jumped to 61,000 in 13 states which are following Texas' lead. Public funds from state health departments, as well as Cancer Society donations, will be used still more widely if the sponsors reach their goal of 100,000 circulation by year...
Only ten years ago, he said, when the national income was $70 billion, people thought it fantastic to talk of its ever reaching $125 billion. "Now it has exceeded $200 billion. I don't think President Truman's goal of a $300 billion national income is fantastic at all, provided we maintain the American system about the way it is today. If we get farther over on the side of a planned economy, or socialism, I don't think...