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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During a four year period between 1937 and 1941 the tax rate in Cambridge rose steadily (17 percent) and the caliber of public administration appeared to be static...
...November 1940 they voted in a new form of government, Plan E with proportional representation. Under this system a non-partisan City Manager assumes the duties of mayor. The revised pattern of city administration went into use in 1941 and at the end of the fiscal year the tax rate tumbled $2.40 in the face of a rising cost of living. Cambridge taxpayers beamed...
...That the population then will be roughly 175 million; (2) that the percentage of workers in the population will remain the same; (3) that output per man hour will continue to increase "at about the rate that has prevailed for generations"; and (4) that each person will work only three-fourths of the hours that he does...
Soap & DDT. By U.S. standards, Persia is an incredibly backward nation. Its population of 17,750,000 is riddled with disease (an estimated 5,000,000 cases of malaria annually and at least 7,000 cases of leprosy). Its infant death rate is estimated at more than 50 per 1,000 live births. Its schools are few and poor. Of some 125 million acres of potentially arable land, only one-tenth is farmed and that with primitive tools...
...third-rate education in overcrowded, ram shackle schools. This documentary focuses on the painstaking three-year fight by plain citizens of Virginia's Arlington County to get better public education for their children. By glossing over their opposition (real-estate interests, a cynical political machine), the film passes up dramatic conflict. But as a detailed primer on rescuing a down-at-heels school system, it suggests a solid public service and offers inspiring evidence that aroused parents can get results when they take their problems into their own hands...