Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...display, situated near the library's first level exit, illustrates how photographs become printing plates in ten minutes when they are ruff through the CRIMSON'S $10,000 electric engraving machine...
...next level of attack is on the matter of economy. Some people, upon seeing a chair or a desk 70 years old, feel automatically urged, by a kind of reflex action, to buy a new one. Others like myself, equally automatically, would cherish it, looking forward to the day when it will...
...this suggests, and here I am at the third level, that education is all a matter of money like everything else, war, scientific advance, even religion to a large extent. Given a good place to sit in (and a luxury super library to read in) anybody with the financial stuff can become an educated citizen...
Cooper Union had plenty to celebrate. Over the years its assets, with the help of other rich men, had grown to $12,700,000, its schools of art and engineering were fully accredited on the college level, awarding bachelor's degrees in civil, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering and certificates of graduation in fine arts, graphic arts and architecture. Three evenings a week there were public lectures in the Great Hall on subjects ranging from atomic fission to Indonesian dances. Among the Union's eminent alumni had been Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Labor Leader Samuel Gompers, Scientist-Inventor...
...being sent to the bench; of Rexall's 13 directors, nine are Rexall employees whom he appointed to the board. President Dart still hopes to boost business with his superstore plan. He has cut the number of Rexall-operated stores from 540 in 1946 to 340, hopes to level off with about 300 in 1950. Said he cheerily: "To those not in the company we look worse and worse. But inside, in the overhead department, we're feeling better and better...