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With or without Politics, 1936 was a banner radio year. Recovery's impetus provided U. S. radio listeners with the most elaborate air shows since radio began. In October, campaign radiorators of all political parties used air time as it never had been used before, gave the networks all-time revenue highs for a single month. Last week, before the year closed, Mutual Broadcasting System accomplished what radiomen have long held improbable: a fourth coast-to-coast network...
...Council of Government Concentrators indicates that it is well on the way to success. Students in other fields, particularly in the order social sciences, would do well to follow the Council's example. While the instructors must be willing to cooperate, it is important that the actual impetus come from the men themselves. Inerested and critical student organizations in every field of concentration would go a long way toward stimulating that absorption of interest of the individual student in his subject matter which is the very lifeblood of a university...
News of the beginning of a pension plan for employees of the University bodes well for the tradition of progressive liberalism which was so recently sounded by President Conant. With the impetus of the nation-wide approbation of President Roosevelt's social security leanings, handed down by the country on November third, the theory of old-age pensions has pervaded into every corner and cranny of the United States...
Fall track, which has been on a rather informal basis in the past years but which is being attended more regularly this year, received now impetus yesterday as the new assistant coach, Harry Noufold arrived to take up his duties here...
Largely because of the impetus of the War, the U. S. merchant fleet remains the second largest in the world. It is also the oldest and slowest collection of tubs owned by any important maritime nation. To replace it with a top-notch fleet, Congress last spring passed the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, offering the most liberal seagoing subsidies in U. S. history, including payments to shipbuilders of as much as 50% of construction costs and payments to ship-operators sufficient to put them on an equal basis with foreign competitors (TIME, July 13). To administer these important projects...