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...University last year provided the Business School lot, few took this offer seriously, especially when a long, wet walk and an hour of jockeying on ice were in prospect. Four hundred car-owners applied for space, and tickets were destined to become extinct. But one night when the plow was unable to squeeze through a congested street, the police investigated and found only 40 cars in the lot. The remaining autos were clustered about the Houses and getting away with...
...farmers' suggestions were filtering back to Washington. If the returns from Michigan were any indication, the department seemed to be in for its roughest going since that summer day in 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt presented a medal to a Georgia farmer as the first man to plow his cotton under...
...later, on orders of FCC, sold the Blue network (it became the American Broadcasting Co.). In RCA's stock-swapping years, it paid no dividends. The first one was not paid until 1937, nearly 20 years after the company started. Sarnoff has thought it more important to plow earnings into research to keep up with the electronic world. And profits from research have often been a long time acoming...
...perfect illustration last week of just what, in practice, is involved in being a "good angel" to backward people (see above). Few countries in the world are more backward than Syria. Her people work the land with wooden plows as they did centuries ago; crops in even the best years barely provide subsistence living. Most peasants are sharecroppers, chronically in debt to moneylenders. Yet, potentially, Syria is a rich land, well able to support twice her present population. Proper irrigation would double her arable land. U.N. experts have drawn up plans for a pilot irrigation project: with $15 million Syria...
...play to the full the sedentary man's favorite game of being a judge of human affairs-with an incomparable host of kings, knights, bishops and princesses filing into the dock under his just but piercing scrutiny. He can also pick up some fascinating history without having to plow through Gibbon...