Word: lags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not the Hutchins plan should be adopted in its particulars is not too important; the point is that there is something radically wrong with the present structure of liberal education. There is a lag,--a dangerous gap--, between the training that our liberal arts colleges offer, and the demand for that training in the world of business and industry. There used to be a time, at the turn of the century, when a man with four years of cultural background was a rarity. In recent years it has been difficult to get a white-collar job without...
...reasons for this lag between the liberal training and the social demand can be found in the historical development of American education. The great outcry for a popularization of this training that could open up a smooth road to advancement gave rise to thousands of new colleges at the ends of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. By 1930, these factories of liberal teaching were turning more than 1,100,000 men off the curricular assembly lines, and 1,000,000 more from the mushroomed vocational training programs combined with them to glut the job market. With more...
There has been a bad lag in the actual movement of U.S. war material to Russia and Turkey. The long-tried patience of Joseph Stalin-smothered with promises, fed with a trickle-is near the cracking point. Turkey, which unofficially promises to go anti-Axis for the barest trifle of Lend-Lease aid, is now getting desperately nervous, because no U.S. aid arrives. The President, seeing the Lend-Lease clearance papers, takes it for granted that the goods have been shipped, does not know that they have been sidetracked by the U.S. Army & Navy for other uses...
...most of how to handle OPA control when & if it came. On this, the retailers had two main suggestions: 1) that ceilings be selective, not (as in Canada) blanket, and apply only to widely used and acutely scarce products; 2) that any ceilings imposed take account of the time lag between retailers' buying and selling periods. If ceilings are placed at both the wholesale and the retail level as of the same date, retailers see gross unfairness to all of their members, bankruptcy for some of the weaker ones who buy hand to mouth-i.e., late and high...
...single dissenting vote; the Senate took only 27 minutes for debate. If the sum was colossal (enough to build thirty-four $366,000,000 Panama Canals), so was its purpose: to build 10,000 trainer planes and 23,000 combat planes, armed capapie. The appropriation will forestall a lag in production due next August, when present orders begin...