Word: goals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world where opera is looked on as champagne & caviar for the rich, this was a feat. The San Carlo has never had wealthy backers or subsidies. Its goal has been low-priced opera for mass audiences. In its 30 seasons it has played 9,000 times to 19,000,000 people; and except for its first year, when it lost $700, it has made money. Though its performances some-times creak, and its singing is as uneven as a stockmarket graph, it has kept a wide public happy...
Shipbuilding was way short of its goal. To turn out 8,000,000 tons by the end of the year, yards should long since have been turning out two ships a day, should very soon be delivering three a day-close to a million tons a month. The Maritime Commission announced last week that the number of cargo vessels delivered during April was 36-less than half the required million tons...
...piddling total would have seemed fantastic to U.S. shipbuilders. But this was 1942, year of need. Some yards broke records. Some yards expanded like mushrooms overnight. Some builders bettered the Commission's 105-day schedule for building Liberty Ships. Bethlehem-Fairfield Yard at Baltimore announced a 75-day goal. The West Coast's hurry-up man, Henry J. Kaiser, entrepreneur, builder of dams, and now of ships, claimed a record of 81 days at iris Portland, Ore. shipyard...
...building up a 7-0 score midway in the second. The home team then pulled up to 7 to 2 at half-time, but the Elis put on the pressure again in the third quartor, scoring four times. In the final stanza they made up for the one goal scored by Harvard in the third...
From the private college, the nation expanded to include the state university in its trend toward the ultimate goal of universal higher education. With the war, American colleges are entering upon a third stage which may finally guarantee equal opportunity for all. Government subsidy of higher learning is essential to victory, and thoughtful planning can make such subsidy a potent weapon in a democratic post-war world...