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Word: mented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help the Government do its big job, the committee recommended the appoint ment of 1) a President's commission on full employment, composed of a "small working body of the ablest men to be found"; and 2) a joint congressional committee on full employment. They would work out a "coordinated Government program for high level employment," lay down the policies to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: C.E.D. v. Normalcy | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...Trusteeship Council for dependent territories is guided by a statement of principles recognizing the paramount interests of the governed. The administering power is pledged to develop self-govern ment (but not necessarily independence) in trust territories. These guarantees are only theoretical - the Council as yet has no territories to protect - but the beginning is promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: From Where to Where? | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...permanent program, Yale this week sets up a system which will let bright students graduate in three years. The brightest (to be called the Scholars of the House) may be admitted to a new experi ment in which, after two years of a "con trolled curriculum" (i.e., no electives), they will be allowed to branch out in much the manner of graduate students, study whatever they want, earn degrees on the basis of a thesis and a long oral examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Things to Come | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...University of Denver will expand its Department of Government Manage ment into a School of Public Administration. It will also merge and expand other departments into a School of Communication, covering journalism, radio, speech, drama, television, cinema, public-opinion analysis, advertising, public relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Things to Come | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...good old peacetime the U.S. never used over 400 million lbs. of aluminum a year. Last week the War Production Board announced that aluminum would be available immediately, priority free, for civilian goods. On top of this announce ment the Surplus Property Board declared that it will scrap all unsalable military aircraft in the U.S. from which can be produced an estimated one billion lbs. of second-grade aluminum ingots. Best Washington sources estimate that, as a result of these two orders, over 100 million lbs. of aluminum will be available for third quarter civilian production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Back to Normalcy--& Beyond | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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