Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Modernize and overhaul the 23-year-old Hawley-Smoot Tariff, which is still the basis for 1953's regulations...
...Modification of the "Buy American" Act, plus a complete overhaul and simplification of tariff schedules, with an average rate cut of about 33%. Some 8,000 present tariff rates should be boiled down into a few clearly defined categories; tariffs and import taxes on such items as petroleum products, metals, wool and many manufactured goods, including machinery, autos and appliances, should be lowered or eliminated...
...scholars with a 'roving commission' would help to break down departmental barriers." Over protests from some professors, he plumped for a program of general education, and with the publication of the famed Harvard Report (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945), he placed an official seal on a great postwar overhaul of higher education...
...boys are not getting as much out of college as they should. Superior students suffer from having to keep pace with the dull ones, and too few ever learn just what a liberal education is all about. What U.S. education needs, says the committee, is a complete overhaul of the years between the second year of prep school and the third year of college. Among its suggestions...
Like many another airframe maker, Grumman diversified into such strange lines as aluminum canoes and dinghies. To help pay the overhead, "Jake" Swirbul snared contracts to overhaul Navy planes and to service foreign airlines planes. For the civilian airplane market, Grumman's Widgeon amphibians were refitted for executive use, and Grumman began making its fast, versatile Mallards and the Albatross, an air-sea rescue plane. Swirbul's tactics succeeded in keeping the company narrowly in the black. By 1948 Chairman...