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Bush is reported to be the only member of the Committee who voted against the report. "Liberal education," said Bush "should not be viewed as a prison term with one-fourth off for good behavior. I'm aware of the pressure of time and money, but these should not be the real consideration...
...believe in three-year degrees, especially for the superior student," Bush said. "Liberal education should not be viewed as a prison term with one-fourth off for good behavior. I'm aware of the pressures of time and money, but these should not be the real consideration...
...demand for an agendaless or wide open conference. Last week the Western powers gave in again. After days of haggling, the four powers agreed to hold their discussions in the Allied Control Council building in West Berlin one week and in the ponderous Soviet embassy in East Berlin the next week.* The British and French could not see why one-fourth of the group should have one-half the choice of meeting place, and were for making a big issue of it, on the ground that the Russians did not really dare hold out indefinitely. "The Russians...
...Incidentally, West Coat banks pay out more money to their staffs than banks in any other area in the country. Institutions in the south and Middle Atlantic are the mot close-fisted, having payrolls considerably smaller than the national average. Small banks pay executives loan than one-fourth the amount they would receive working for the largest banks; small towns, however, have much lower cost-of-living indexes than these of New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco...
...decided to go into business with Ishikawajima, which had built engines for Zero fighters during the war, and postwar had switched some of its machines into the manufacture of textile machinery. Koehring Co. took one-fourth of the stock in the new company and a royalty of 5% on gross sales. In return, it gave its technical help, and undertook to train Japanese technicians in the U.S. Since then, the company has turned out $1,000,000 worth of cement-handling equipment, increased its backlog...