Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign-aid program, but they reacted with resentment and suspicion to the priority which the President gave the price phase of his program. Any discussion of what to do about prices would inevitably stir up the old argument over who was to blame for the present high level of prices. Republicans said that businessmen would oppose any new controls. Said Michigan's Jesse Wolcott: "If he can lower prices without putting controls back on, he's a genius and we'll admit...
Bread & Coffee. But last week these deprivations seemed like minor matters. Great numbers of the Navajos are facing starvation. Only 161 of their 11,117 families own as many as 200 sheep-the number needed to maintain a mere subsistence level of living. Without big irrigation projects (which could make the reservation capable of supporting 35,000 people at most), their desolate lands are almost useless for agriculture...
...Russians have had more success in introducing Soviet living standards. Said a Meissen baker bitterly when asked what he thought of Germany's future: "They are lowering us to the Russian level. They want workers here to have 150 marks a month and one suit of clothes, as in Russia. Germans are used to better than that." A Meissen housewife, asked about her city's famed china, put it still more succinctly...
...with a broken bone or split kidney receives the same treatment as a Varsity player, the fact that he is allowed two weeks in a hospital and all surgeons fees expense paid seems slight recompense for an avoidable injury. As long as intramural football operates on a collegiate level, there should be some attempt to prepare players for big-time games. A smaller schedule, with a total of twenty-five games and three weeks of pre-season training, would ease the pressure on teams now held to a thirty-five game schedule with only a short practice period. A conditioning...
...circulation system inadequate in its technical aspects for the needs of a brimming College further hampers the library's efforts to bridge the time until Lamont is completed. With the circulation desk and paging stations on the eighth of ten stack levels, the time required to fill a book order ranges from fifteen minutes to three-quarters of an hour, as against five minutes at New York's Public Library. By dropping the circulation desk to the ground floor and installing a much discussed book conveyor at each stack level, Widener patrons could obtain necessary references with maximum speed...