Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Hender commented last night that the College is opposed to discrimination in any way, but it is also reluctant to interfere with students. "We don't like to jump in unless there is strong reason for it," he said
Last week New York University's School of Education reported that 26 graduate students were taking the nation's first collegiate course in writing comic books. Reason for the course: since most U.S. schoolchildren (and most adults) read comics, N.Y.U. had begun to think that U.S. educators better learn how to produce constructive ones...
Everybody Sad? Many of the bankers and economists saw no reason why the U.S. should not cut its spending and put its house in order. They aimed their fire at the Government's multitude of overlapping lending bureaus which had put out more than $20 billions in loans and guarantees. By & large, the bankers thought that some of the agencies, notably RFC, are no longer justified and should be curtailed or eliminated entirely...
...give the kiddies investment trust shares that can "grow with the years." For gifts of $100 in mutual fund shares, Kidder, Peabody would furnish a green-edged gift certificate listing the shares purchased. The firm reminded parents such shares yield from 3½% to 6%, hinted there was no reason to limit purchases to $100: gifts up to $3,000 are exempt from gift taxes...
...record of almost 5,500,000 cars & trucks in the first ten months of this year the demand for cars is still near the top. After a consumer survey, the Federal Reserve Board predicted that there would be peak auto sales at least until the middle of 1950. One reason is that more people can afford autos than prewar. Explained FRB: while the retail price of the three leading lowest-priced cars went up an average of 65% between 1941 and early 1949, U.S. family income increased more than 100% (from $1,500 to $3,100) in the same period...