Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possibility was manpower control. Already the armed forces, Government agencies and industries were competing for persons with special skills. ("Government agencies and industries are after my engineers all the time now," reported a men's dean at Georgia Tech-see EDUCATION.) As mobilization rolled on, the squeeze would reach down through all levels of the manpower supply...
Four Twelves Are 48 (by Joseph Kesselring; produced by Richard Aldrich & Richard Myers in association with Julius Fleischmann) was the first play of Kesselring's to reach Broadway since Arsenic and Old Lace in 1941. It was also very nearly the worst play to reach Broadway since that time. It dealt with a family whose females, one after another, became unmarried mothers at twelve. Almost certainly anyone with the ability to handle such a subject would lack the desire. Playwright Kesselring handled it so crudely that, before the show closed after two performances, he had audiences wincing and yawning...
What to do about farm and food prices, now riding up & up and taken out of the reach of price controls by act of Congress? The doctor prescribed a poultice. Said he: we must "control speculative trading." The report was also filled with good advice which no one needed so badly as the doctor himself. Sample: "All of us must plan . . . Government must assume leadership...
They tell a story around Miami about the football player who once tried to escape from the area. He was, the reports say, stopped before he could reach the border. This is probably a fiction, but it illustrates by ridiculous example the workings of the school's active supporters. Alumni activities were not covered by the Sanity Code...
However, I doubt if there was a real need for his writing the letter. First of all, the doctor did not take a half hour to reach me as the letter stated. I remember the time clearly, since at the time I was quite concerned about it, and I'm quite sure that the doctor was there in a little over 20 minutes. Furthermore, considering the trouble it is to get through traffic and other obstacles on the way to Harvard and particularly to Hemenway, I should think that an emergency case that gets a doctor in even half...