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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the next time Lamont librarians decide to recommend a book, they might read it first...
Dunlop has his share of scars. He remembers the day in March, 1951, when he moved that the Wage Stabilization Board recommend a freeze of basic wage increases at ten percent, to stop the Korean inflation. When the motion passed, one of the labor members was so angry he stuck his fist through a plate glass window. Labor walked out on the board, Dunlop recalls, and its press denounced him as a tool of management. A year later, during the crippling steel strike, he voted to grant a union shop to the Basic Steel industry. For this he was blasted...
These men said, however, that they would probably favor the remainder of the plan and recommend some of their exceptional students to skip the freshman year at college...
...third chief virtue of this book should recommend it equally to those familiar and those unfamiliar with E. B. White. The Second Tree is in effect both a resume and a nearly complete sampling of his career and his work. Ranging in date from 1935 to 1953, its contents include pieces in each of the styles presented in previous homogeneous collections: parables, satires, and parodies (Quo Vadimus), essays of the more classic form (One Man's Meat), notes from the New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" (Every Day Is Saturday and The Wild Flay), and songs and poems...
...others), and 2) high medical costs (some 10% of American families spend more than $500 a year for medical care, and the national average is $200). Said the message: "While continuing to reject Government regulation of medicine, we shall with vigor and imagination continously search out by appropriate means, recommend, and put into effect new methods of achieving better health for all of our people...