Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gosplan has been under the disadvantage that the Political Police took away last summer and autumn not only its director, V. I. Mezhlauk, but also the other leading Plan officials, and they have not been heard of since. The June issue...
...other democracies-has been in the air. It was suggested at the Harvard Tercentenary celebration by Professor Etienne Gilson of France. A group of newspaper reporters at Cambridge, sensing a good story, promoted an unofficial symposium of celebrities who declared themselves in favor of the plan. Official encouragement came from Britain. Newspaper editorials on the subject were reprinted in science journals. Last week at Indianapolis the A. A. A. S. council officially approved the plan for some of the world's most learned men to form an international body of thinkers and knowers that might light up a world...
...delegates. The A. S. U. had for two years subscribed to the Oxford pledge not to fight in any war, denounced all policies that might lead to war. But last week war had become a less academic question and the delegates were confronted with a new peace plan- ''collective security." This program, advanced by President Roosevelt in his Chicago "quarantine" speech, implies embargoes and other sanctions against aggressor nations. Shouting that government embargoes (not the same as private boycotts) were the surest road to war, the Socialists, Trotskyites, Lovestonites and peace-at-any-price pacifists rallied behind...
Cuba heartily joined the goodwill flight plan, added three airplanes and her best flyers to the single machine of the Dominican Republic. Suddenly last week their months of flight talk were shocked to a dismayed whisper as word was received that seven of the nine flyers, the whole Cuban contingent, had been killed in an almost incredible triple collision in the mountains of Colombia...
...death sentence"-was American Water Works & Electric Co. Inc. Last February American Water Works withdrew its suit and registered with SEC. Five months ago American Water Works became one of the first of some 90 holding companies which are now registered with SEC to file a voluntary plan for reorganization. And last week SEC, pleased to find a public utility that wanted to cooperate, gave its approval in all major respects...