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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideally should provide: an evaluation of the extent to which a student has mastered, or failed to master, an area of knowledge. If the grade system, which is now under attack from several quarters, at times does not provide this kind of answer--and who has not sometimes received higher marks in courses for which he was less well prepared?--this is the fault not of the system's theory, but of its practice. More exacting, more factual examinations, and at least one term paper in every non-scientific course, would certainly help eliminate the tendency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Another Departure: Toward Independent Study | 1/30/1957 | See Source »

...Establishing, during the same period, common tariffs against outside nations at an average level lower than France's, higher than the Low Countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Third Chance | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Abolishing discriminatory transportation charges, such as higher rates for goods originating in another country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Third Chance | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Voluntary Curbs. Some Southern states, irked by Government sales of cotton to Japan at 25% discount, pushed for restrictive state laws to check Japanese imports. The Tariff Commission urged presidential approval of a 100% hike in velveteen tariffs, the highest in 27 years; it began studying higher tariffs on Japanese gingham imports, now 48% of U.S. production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Textile Compromise | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...power, railroaders have been able to boost the total amount of freight by 45% to 650 billion ton-miles in 1956. And that is only the beginning: in the next ten years, the industry expects to spend $20 billion more for modernization to cut costs and boost volume even higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEW AGE OF RAILROADS | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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