Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cases, the Air Force deliberately paid more for planes just to get a new assembly line tooled up: e.g., the first two troop-carrying C-ngs to roll out of the new Kaiser-Frazer plant cost $1,000,000 apiece, as compared with the $314,000 price at the parent Fairchild plant. Said a production engineer last week, expansively waving aside Vandenberg's estimate of two years: "If they say 'go' today, a rate of 100,000 planes a year would be possible in ten months...
Today Britain can boast both freedom of religion, and freedom for. If a parent sincerely objects to the instruction-and some Jews and Roman Catholics do-he may keep his child away. Otherwise, a pupil can learn from "reserved" teachers, specially trained in "religious knowledge." The texts the teachers follow are specially written syllabi, which Anglicans and other Protestants agreed in 1944 to accept...
...schools. But as a practical matter, Mr. Conant surely recognizes the existence of strong adverse forces, ranging from simple financial and organizational difficulties to the pedagogists' lobby, which is currently in a position to impress its highly controversial theories on the schools as though they were revealed truth. The parent who wants to give his children the best available education, the college teacher who prefers students who have already taken a few steps toward literacy, and the man considering a career in secondary school teaching must look upon the private schools with more benevolence than the President of Harvard does...
...public schools. But as a practical matter, Mr. Conant surely recognizes the existence of strong adverse forces, ranging from simple financial and organizational difficulties to the pedagogists' lobby, which is currently in a position to impose highly controversial theories on schools as though they were revealed truth. The parent who wants to give his children the best available education, the college teacher who prefers students who have already taken a few steps toward literacy, and the man considering a career in secondary school teaching must look upon the private schools with more benevolence than the President of Harvard does...
...profits. But he soon thought up a real taxeroo. He now forms a new company to handle each new toy he brings out (e.g., rocker toys, toy typewriters, the Charles Eames TOY), thus keeps his overall gross in the lowest corporate income-tax brackets. In addition to the Chicago parent, Tigrett Enterprises, Inc., he now runs seven toy companies...