Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with non-honors men, who without much doubt would be far less well off in another field. Also to be considered are the group of men who might start out as honors candidates, but after being in the field a year or two fall below the honors level...
Below the top level the acting falls into the morass of undisciplined and inconsistent characterizations typical of American Shakespeare companies, which do not have the acting tradition and standards which hold British productions together...
...needed fixing up, he organized the Automotive Safety Foundation to do something about U.S. traffic deaths. In 1942 he presided at the birth of the Committee for Economic Development, a group of businessmen and economists organized to do something about keeping the U.S. economy up to its wartime Henning level and providing jobs...
...balanced budget, debt retirement, lower taxes (in that order); Government stimulation of housing; rent control; prepaid health insurance at the state level; a permanent FEPC; the Taft-Hartley law (except for the anti-Communist and union press provisions); public power development; the U.N.; the Marshall Plan (conditioned on proof of mutual cooperation & self-help); equal attention to the problems of the Orient; Hawaiian statehood; universal military training...
...keep all details top secret, but some leaked out. The "Joy Continuous Miner," as it is called, is under 25 feet long, weighs less than 20 tons and moves on caterpillar treads. It has powerful cutting arms which first dig into the face of a seam at floor level, then cut their way up to the roof. As it is cut and broken, a conveyer system carries the coal back over the machine directly into cars, in which it is hauled to the surface...