Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since educational expenses are paid by the Veterans Administration as of the day they receive an application rather than from the day the application was filed at the University, veterans may find themselves charged for a minor sum representing a few days' tuition...
Baking at Home. Even the minor strikes looked big to the people closest to them. In Cincinnati the strike that hit home was in the bakeries. Hospitals and school lunchrooms still got bread, but grocery shelves were bare. In some homes, the ancient custom of bread-baking was revived...
Contending for rural council seats in small communities (up to 20,000 inhabitants) were four major parties, a dozen minor ones, and a bevy of independent candidates. In Catholic Bavaria the slightly right-of-center Christian Democratic Union won a landslide victory. Typical campaign promise: "Do you want your barnyards, fields and cattle to remain your property? . . . Then vote C.D.U.!" Socialists were a bad second. Liberals and Communists also ran. Independents did well...
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Eccles realized as well as anyone else that the soaring market was the result, rather than the cause of inflation. Said he: speculation on credit was a minor factor...
Adequate Incentive. Now, Al Browning hopes to perform another minor miracle in Wallace's bailiwick; he expects to make it the two-fisted champion of business in the Administration. He has promised to stay only three months, will probably stay longer if Wallace lives up to his promise to give him a free hand. What he hopes to drive home is that business must have "adequate incentive" to supply the jobs for full employment, i.e., taxes should be further reduced, plant amortization regulations liberalized, etc. He summed up his new job: "Our purpose is to stimulate, not just...