Word: planners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Idle? Walter Reuther's statement that the booming automobile industry had any idle capacity or labor was news to most people. Planner Reuther cited three empty factories in Detroit with 554,000 square feet of idle space. He named companies (Fisher Body, Chevrolet, Ternstedt) which had recently laid off skilled workers or put them at unskilled labor, declared that not more than half the industry's total capacity was actually at work. He also assumed that individual auto-makers would have to be compelled to pool their resources and talents, perhaps delay their own new models while...
...City-Planner Wright, like many another architect, thinks that the bombing of Europe's cities is likely to be a blessing in disguise. "After all," says he, "what is St. Paul's? An imitation of St. Peter's in Rome. I don't think anyone will miss Wren's work much. Broadacres is going to England as soon as there is a chance for it to be shown there. This will be immensely beneficial to England...
Last week, Planner Tugwell was back in the news on two fronts. The first was Washington, where he attended the Savings Bank Journal forum (see p. 81). Picking up a challenge of Guaranty Trust Co. Vice President Robert Garner, who asked, "If the Administration knows how to create employment, why hasn't it done so in the past eight years?", Tugwell replied: "It always has required from $12,000,000,000 to $15,000,000,000 of Government spending a year...
...Planners like Tugwell have been batting up a novel solution to this problem: abolish local real-estate taxes altogether. Property owners would pay just an income tax, and that to the Federal Government. Even cautious politicos like LaGuardia have been intrigued. Last winter he told the New York Board of Trade he wanted just one big tax collector -the Federal Government. The taxes it collected from each city and State would be allocated back to them on a kind of credit system. Workable or not, this kind of arrangement would do two things: it would stop the tax race between...
...Hitler began to liquidate German scholarship in 1933, every ship from Europe has borne eminent scholars to the U. S. Today many of them teach in U. S. colleges and universities. At Harvard are ex-Chancellor Heinrich Brüning; famed Architects Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer; renowned City Planner Martin Wagner; Werner Jaeger, one of the world's most eminent classical scholars...