Word: nonprofit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stars. Taylor's plan involved putting a full two years of college on TV. With School Superintendent Benjamin Willis, he decided to work through the city's four junior colleges, whose teachers would start out by giving four freshman courses over WTTW, which is owned by the nonprofit Chicago Educational Association. Viewers could take one course or all four, could work for credit (and an Associate of Arts degree) or merely audit. The response was greater than even the most optimistic officials anticipated. When the nation's first TV college began this fall...
...opposed the Boer War, losing almost a quarter of its circulation and requiring its reporters to take police escorts to work; it fought for Irish home rule when anti-Irish riots threatened in Manchester; it opposed Britain's entry into World War I. Under Wadsworth the paper, a nonprofit-making trust, switched its support from Labor to Tories as it deemed fit, fought British policy on Cyprus and Suez, roasted the U.S. for McCarthyism. It is a strong supporter of Adlai Stevenson, is cool toward the Eisenhower Administration and often angrily critical...
...first week's warm reception was a good indication of "what a big need the museum is going to fill." Richly endowed with cash* and energy. Craftswoman Webb started her crusade for handicrafts back in the Depression '305 as a home-based relief project, later founded the nonprofit American Craftsmen's Council, which started its own craft training school (now part of Rochester Institute of Technology), its own magazine (Craft Horizons; circ. 15,000), and Manhattan's America House, Ltd., devoted to selling U.S. craft products...
...world's longest ski lifts (14,000 ft.) and summer conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise: The Aspen Health Center for basically healthy but pooped businessmen...
...Operation of the canal by a nonprofit international body with full control over finances, maintenance and development...