Word: processes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maverick-minded Republican did come up with another idea. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders recommended rationing of meat. "The price of meat is the keystone of the whole process of spiraling," he said. He thought rationing would help keep down the price without direct price control by keeping "demand in line." He was not optimistic. But he put it forward anyhow-"to see if anybody has got a better idea...
Boom-&-bust should be controlled by lowering tax rates, easing credit controls, starting public works (under private contract) whenever unemployment reaches 6% of the total labor force; when unemployment drops back to 4%, the process should be reversed. Another Stassen weapon: "Officially encouraged voluntary boycotts" against excessively high prices...
This success gave Korda's voice a confident ring as he announced that his new company, London. Film Productions, Ltd., would turn out 13 pictures next year and spend $20 million in the process. (With the announcement of J. Arthur Rank that he would make 43 pictures worth $40 million next year, Britain could expect 80 new pictures, its largest production ever...
...starting gate of the process lies the Committee on Admissions, which every spring filters out three-fourths of its applicants, leaving an accepted residue of its own composition. Since the advent of Chairman Richard M. Gummere in 1934 the criteria used in the filtering have moved slowly but surely in the direction of President Conant's "democratization." The College Board has eliminated the specialized examinations which were the joy of carefully prepared prep-schoolers; scholarships, including Mr. Conant's new National variety, have mounted; geographical distribution has been emphasized...
...Young Man, Follow the Sea," a difficult and talky story by Bynum Green Jr., the young man says, "Anyway, Joyce still forces his critics to perform their proper function. He demands that they understand completely his process of creation before they can understand his works." Well, although Green explains in a footnote that he composed his story in seven nights, and also gives thanks to various helpers, (e.g., "Merei Maria"), this critic professes to understand neither the process of creation nor the work. The story is well-written; there are constant allusions to Joyce, Eliot and others; the stream...