Word: mille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several decades ago the Gary school system was established by William A. Wirt, who instituted a "work-study-play" program designed for mill workers' children. According to Roser, the Wirt System "was partially an attempt to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population, with minimum building facilities, and partially a revolt against the typical 'Latin School' type of upper class education." The inclusion of extracurricular activities during the school day for credit was an integral feature of the system...
...dovetailed closely with another way for Harvard to help solve the problem which would be created by increased pressure for college admissions. This was the view that saw the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--both the College and the Graduate School--as an upper-level teachers' college, a Ph.D. mill to supply the nation's college instructors...
Nickels & Peanuts. On the coast of Baranof Island, Sitka, last capital of Russian America* was bustling with the clack and crunch of a new $55.5 million pulp mill abuilding. Up to the north, Nome's Sah Yung Ah Tim Mini Chapter (Eskimo talk for "strength gone from the body") of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis was busy pressing its immunization drive, and Bush Pilot Neal Foster, 41, reported that Nome (pop. 2,000) was having a pleasant day at 45° and that "a bunch of people are getting their boats in the water here now, mostly...
...home-and already they have filed for leases on 27 million acres. The timber business racked up $34.3 million in 1957, and that economic youngster is still in short plants. Near Ketchikan, hard by the 16 million-acre Tongass National Forest, is a new, $52½ million pulp mill, and timber folk talk about production of 2 billion board feet a year (v. 33 billion Stateside). Scarcely tapped, too, is Alaska's mineral treasure, which boasts 31 of the 33 metals on the U.S.'s critical list (exceptions: industrial diamonds, bauxite). The North American continent's only...
...feel that the facts of the moment justify a gloomy outlook. I think they justify an optimistic outlook.'' Said Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "The end of the great pressure of the downward movement will come to an end during the second quarter. It will mill around during the summer and lift in the autumn." The Administration's decision to hold the line on taxes already had the tentative approval of House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. But there were plenty of critics, both in and out of Congress, waiting...