Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first suspicion that Nye was not going to do his usual roaring came as the delegates considered Leader Hugh Gaitskell's favorite proposal to switch from "oldfashioned nationalization" to a scheme for state buying of shares in key industries (TIME, July 29). Bevan, a longtime and passionate advocate of nationalization, sat impassively on the platform as old-line Socialists jeered Gaitskell from the floor. "Sheer capitalism," yelled a delegate. "I'd better take off me boots and put on me spats," said a quarry worker from the midlands. Asked old (72) Manny Shin well, grizzled orator from...
Marlboro's scheme of general education is closely modeled on the Harvard system with strong influence from the St. John's College "100 Great Books" program. The college's Council of Academic Advisers includes Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Chairman of the Committee on General Education at Harvard...
...rising economy which has brought more wealth, more purchasing power, more comfort, more jobs, more homes, more luxuries, more leisure, more education and more security to our people than they have ever enjoyed before. Do we want to lose this? Do we want to let some pet or personal scheme of our own keep us from going on with the fight? Do we want to have Republicans sit on their hands as some 500,000 of them did in Wisconsin the other...
...partners in the dormant anti-Kremlin Balkan pact of 1954. It now became obvious that the proposal came as no surprise to him, and must have grown out of Tito's meeting with Khrushchev in Rumania last month. But it was considerably less clear who fathered the scheme, and who stood to gain most by its acceptance or rejection...
Under the elaborate scheme worked out by Eaton and Krupp, ships would move into Hopes Advance Bay during the four-month ice-free season each summer, haul the pelletized ore to Rotterdam, where it will be transferred to barges and towed up the Rhine to German steel mills. By great circle routes. Hopes Advance Bay is almost as close to Rotterdam (2,570 miles) as it is to Philadelphia (2,245 miles...