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...TIME, Sept. 17, 1945), a small private amphibian, and was $7,000,000 in the red. To make matters worse, American Airlines and Pan American Airways canceled orders for the four-engine Rainbow transport, the only transport orders Republic had. Then Peale took his first gamble; he decided to junk the Seabee program, stop trying for civilian orders, and stake Republic's future on Government contracts...
Littauer should not junk the extension program, for it is most valuable in its field. Nor can it stiffen its admissions requirements, for the extensioneers should be chosen primarily for their agricultural, not their scholarly ability. What Littauer can tamper with, however, is the doctor's degree itself. If the degree clearly indicated that the extension doctorate was in agricultural studies alone, there could be no complaints that standards were being diluted. For the farm educators' purposes, this qualification would rub no shine off their sheepskins. And it would close a loophole through which many academically average students have been...
Both squads will use the T-formation on the offense. Shepard employed it exclusively two weeks ago against the Tigers, and will probably junk his three-team system for this contest...
Miracle in Milan might seem like a humorous bit of Communist propaganda, if it were not for all the supernatural. Its characters are takeoffs on a decadent capitalistic population. The rich industrialists are all bleated and jewlish, which the proletariat is grubby but unbowed, dancing around junk heaps with fixed, there fund smiles. As party line literature, it runs close in the line, until the end, when capitalism bows not to strength and indignation but to an unprepossessing miracle maker...
...first, the police could hardly believe their story or that anyone could buy heroin in sleepy Riverhead. But the evidence convinced them. To catch the dope peddlers, Kellerman agreed to go back to jail as a prisoner. But when Kellerman finally managed to make his second "buy," the "junk" turned out to be nothing but aspirin, epsom salts and barbiturates...