Word: helps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration can simply ignore these figures, because they are looking at the problem from the point of view of a few departments taken at the present moment. Even if the College as a whole will have enough middle-groupers at some time in the blushing future, that does not help English, Government, or Biology now. The recent dismissals have hog-tied and rolled these departments. And the fact remains that--regardless of figures--this blow to education could have been avoided by a measure of flexibility in the appointment of associate professors and a willingness to appoint associates in some...
...Book Center would be a friendly building, divided into many rooms and dens; each room would contain books on a related group of subjects, and to each room would be appended stacks, open to anybody. A personable reference staff would be ready to help students at any time. And pervading the Center would be an air of informality. Comfortable chairs, lounge rooms available for discussions, a tuck shop--these are but a few of the conveniences--would make studying desirable instead of damnable...
...government ought to be helping industry to its feet ... it even almost ought to err in that direction." So said red-haired Attorney General Frank Murphy last week. Since he tends strictly to his legal knitting and engages in none of the New Deal's economic fancywork, his sentiments were merely sentiments. But the same day two other members of the Administration went to the help of Business with good advice about the war boom...
Outstanding among Stone & Webster orders was one to build a 32,000-kilowatt generating plant to help Big Steel's huge plants in Pittsburgh's Monongahela Valley. Big Steel, fresh from a $642,000,000 modernization program, still has more old-fashioned equipment to replace than its smaller competitors. (Only a month ago it resurrected some old-style hand rolling mills to help handle its huge order book.) Last week word leaked out that Big Steel would install three new continuous rolling mills in its new ($60,000,000) Irvin Works at a cost of over...
...Having just refilled its till with about $300,000 of new private money and $450,000 of RFC money, Hayes proposes to pay back this arm of the Government by selling to another arm-the War and Navy Departments. Its new lines: aircraft parts, ordnance, armored truck bodies. To help win a place on Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson's clubby suppliers' list, Hayes Body went last week and got a new president, veteran Munitions Salesman John W. Young...