Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indifference and its tradition no longer extend into the musical areas of University life, if the sales figures on phonograph records, concerts, and recitals mean anything. A new phenomenon of what might be called selective enthusiasm has moved in lock, stock and barrel: when Briggs & Briggs and McKenna's can sell out their first shipment of the new "Messiah" recording within two days of arrival, when undergraduates will line up for copies of Italian Cetra discs at $3.25 a shot, when the inability of undergraduates to find seats at the BSO's Sanders Theater concerts begins rumblings of revolt...
...grave was Britain's economic sickness? Did the realization that Britain must sharply reduce her Empire commitments and step down as a first-rate power also mean that Britain at home could never recover...
Awakening. Last fall Publisher Bowles, still mad at the printers, suddenly shut up shop rather than sign a contract with them. Deprived of news, Springfield was jolted into realizing what it can mean to be a monopoly town...
Under Dewey's new plan, teachers in small communities would get a permanent minimum of $2,000, a maximum of $4,100. Cities over 100,000 population (such as Buffalo) would have $2.200 minimums, $4,510 maximums. Buffalo's striking Federation said this would mean that only 236 teachers would get more than a $35 raise next year. New York City's teachers were guaranteed $2,500 minimums (the active minimum already in effect, including a $300 emergency raise good until April...
...said, be passed on directly to consumers. They would get the cheaper steel which the company had promised the West Coast when it bought Geneva. But Kaiser, thrown into a bad competitive position, was undoubtedly not interested in cheaper steel if it meant closing up Fontana. And it might mean just that when the current steel shortage is over...