Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine arts major, Kranz has maintained an A to B-plus average in addition to spending three to five hours a day painting. His thesis is on "Color Problems...
...Prudent Husband. Britain is now trying to buy most of what she needs from the sterling areas. She has reduced her dollar imports by 25%; the other major OEEC nations by only 15%.* Last week Cripps proposed that the others should make a further reduction of 10% to match Britain. At this point ECA's Averell Harriman, who had been itching to join the discussions, was invited in, and promptly threw his weight with the continental high-volume traders...
Long Way from Locke. A few weeks before Churchill's blast, Britain's new socialized medicine scheme had survived its first major test in the House of Commons. Its champion, Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, held arrogant and undisputed possession of the field when Churchill walked out of the House (TIME, Feb. 28). This did not prove that Britain's socialized medicine plan was good medicine or good social organization. But the debate's results did prove that socialized medicine was what the British voters wanted...
...Brazil still lacks resources and equipment for a general advance on its entire economic front. Because stepping up industry would require a prior boost in power, transportation, and raw materials, the commission assigned such increases preference, if not full priority. And it declared that the government must have a major role in the development of that primary type...
...Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory and at Curtis, he settled down to buzz and bow under Kindler. Two years ago, when Kindler was ill, Mitchell got his first chance to conduct the National Symphony, made an able understudy's success. His appointment made Washington's the eighth major orchestra in the U.S. (among 25 with budgets of $100,000 or more) with an American-born musician in the conductor's post...