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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Brazil's five-year SALTE Plan-short for Saude (health), Alimentos (food), Transporte (transport), Energia (power)-the report recognized that all sectors of Brazil's economy need shoring up. It offered a wealth of specific advice on raising industrial capital (by limiting real-estate investment, which in some years absorbs as much as two-thirds of Brazilian savings), boosting manpower (by vocational training and selective immigration), improving transportation (by coordinating transport services and expanding storage space...
Unfortunately, says Einstein, the coercion has not lessened since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...
...girls who want to go into the professional fields," he says, "the curriculum can be exactly the same as a curriculum for men. But most girls work for a while, then get married and have children. There is need for improvement in education for the days before marriage, and also for preparing for the life of the postgraduate mother-when the children have grown up and left...
...Seymour Mintz cried indignantly: "The public doesn't even know what a turret tuner is. All you have to do is put in some new condenser strips for higher frequencies. Just take out the old and put in the new. Why throw a scare into people before you need...
Actually, the orchestra's fate was in a mortal lap. Next season, the orchestra's 38-year-old First Cellist Howard Mitchell will be wielding the baton instead of the bow. Handsome Howard Mitchell might need some Olympian help at that, however, since there were indications that it might not be forthcoming from some of the usual backers of the orchestra. One ardent Kindler supporter, who chipped in $41,000 for the orchestra last year, had pointedly limited himself to $10 in his first contribution this year...