Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balk at compulsion, but if introductory area courses are available, and undergraduates are required to distribute widely in all the major areas, the courses will be virtually mandatory without the stigma of compulsion. When this is done, distribution will be restored to its proper function, and will serve to offset the over-concentration which now characterizes the average undergraduate's formal education...
...only about one in ten will march to camp.) If a draftee cannot make payments while in uniform, personal-finance outfits will ice the loan, catch their man when he goes back to work. With only a fraction of their business affected, moneylenders expect the boom in business will offset possible draft losses...
...introduction of student waiting would lower board costs by only a very small amount if at all, an amount which might well be offset by some of the disadvantages to student waiting. Any savings brought about by reorganization of the dining halls in the direction of greater efficiency would, on the other hand, be pure gain. The only justification for the introduction of student waiting is that it would supplement the work of the Temporary Student Employment plan in providing jobs for students. If is on this ground, and in view of the considerable support for such a plan expressed...
Dully inept was the Congressional defense of conscription. Majority Leader Alben Barkley in the Senate trusted Wheeler, Vandenberg & Co. to wear themselves out with words, the Gallup Poll (71% favored draft for ages 18-32) to offset a continuing flood of anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week...
...statistics. Despite Hitler's elimination of many a U. S. market in Europe, Department of Commerce figures placed U. S. exports for the first six months of 1940 at $2,067,000,000, up 46% over 1939. Export losses by farmers, oilmen, automakers were more than offset by increased Allied purchases of steel, machinery, aircraft...