Word: planning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also beyond the budget are uncounted hundreds of other expenditure bills-everything from a crossroads postoffice on up. Biggest of the independent bills is the veterans' pension plan which Mississippi's John Rankin rammed through the House; the VA estimates it would cost an average of $1.4 billion a year...
...prices for island products make it next to impossible for anyone but the government to export. Imported consumer goods are priced beyond reach of the average Formosan. "The Chinese are squeezing us," complain the islanders. "They put everything into their pockets. They act like people who don't plan to be around very long. The Japanese at least furnished us with the cloth and consumer goods we needed...
...show was the climax of a contest sponsored by Kansas City's Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards), and designed to tap French talent for next year's batch of U.S. Christmas cards (TIME, March 21). Le Plan Hallmark, as the French immediately dubbed it, had drawn snorts & sneers from French Communists, 5,121 entries from the painters...
Meanwhile, U.S. colleges turned a cold, unfriendly eye on the plan of the House Committee on Un-American Activities to investigate college textbooks. Princeton and Cornell said that they saw no reason to send lists of books to the committee. If Congressmen wanted to know what Cornell was teaching, said Cornell's Chancellor Edmund Ezra Day, "they had better take courses there and find...
Loomis School's Nathaniel Batchelder, 69, stiff-backed headmaster of the Connecticut boys' school. Harvardman Batchelder helped plan the school which five childless members of Connecticut's Loomis family (merchants, lawyers, teachers, divines) decided to found so "that some good may come to posterity through the harvest ... of our lives." As the squirish "Mr. B.", he spent 35 years of his life turning Loomis into one of the top U.S. prep schools...