Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remarks by John Mason Brown '23, enlivened the meeting's proceedings. Brown, in a semi-serious proposal to add $10 to every student's tuition in order to procure funds for student drama, noted, "The University spends over $100,000 a year on athletics; the teams have shown that this is unrewarding. Why not spend a few dollars on the theatre...
Adams: David Mason Little Scholarship; House Athletic Secretary; House Committee; House Newspaper; Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Hasty Pudding Club...
Basic Transportation. The success of the Rambler is not luck but the result of a ten-year-old program. After World War II, the late George Mason, then company president, concluded from market surveys that the U.S. was ready to return to "basic transportation" and a smaller, compact car. While other U.S. cars became costlier and heavier, Mason and his successor, Romney, introduced the first Rambler in 1950, drove it into the field, where the only competition was foreign. To cut costs, Romney consolidated field organization, factories and production, kept model changes at a minimum. He pushed Rambler...
Home builders long have complained that the Federal Housing Administration's 23 volumes of outmoded and confusing minimum standards have kept them from giving house buyers more quality. Last week, following three years of talking with housewives, manufacturers and engineers, FHA Commissioner Norman Mason came out with his answer: a one-volume rule book that for the first time in FHA's 24-year history pulls together, updates and clarifies the regulations on which FHA grants mortgage insurance for one-and two-family houses...
...Because Mason views the updating of FHA rules as a continuing task, the new minimum standards are published looseleaf, allowing builders to take out pages and insert new quality housing regulations as FHA keeps on keeping housing up-to-date...