Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard is applying for funds under the new government student loan plan, University officials announced last night. Designed especially to aid needy science concentrators to complete their training, the scheme was announced recently by the administration...
...brand-new amateur shipyards. Now he was out after bigger stakes. He had broached direct to the public his bold proposal to build 5,000 giant cargo planes (TIME, July 27). Now he descended on Washington with the avowed intention of creating public clamor for his breath-taking scheme...
Thus tested and proved last week was the comparatively new scheme to launch trains of gliders on the fly. In a war which has been a Pandora's Box of surprises in air strategy and tactics, U.S. ingenuity was off & away on a fresh, imaginative tack...
Behind this gramophonic frenzy was a worthy idea: to collect old, unwanted records, sell them for scrap, and with the proceeds buy new records at cost for U.S. soldiers and sailors. It was also a scheme to collect sorely needed shellac for the manufacture of new records...
Last week the University of Chicago's shrewd President Robert Maynard Hutchins launched a scheme to earmark war savings for a future college education. "Buy a future education," said the university, "and help win the war with the same dollars...