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...born to the purple, Almond had to scrimp and save for his education. He worked in a sawmill and a gristmill, plowed a straight furrow, shocked corn and sowed wheat and milked cows, and, with the help of a $10-a-month scholarship, earned enough to go to the University of Virginia. At that, he had to quit for two years to take a $125-a-month job as principal of a four-room Orange County school before returning to Charlottesville and graduating, in 1923, from law school...
...money. Last week, with 1954's big volume of financing less than one-third completed, an old problem returned to haunt the Treasury Department. Last year, when Congress brusquely turned down an Administration request to boost the $275 billion debt limit to $290 billion, the Treasury managed to scrimp along under the old limit. Now, because of heavy tax receipts in March, the national debt is down to $271 billion. But it is expected to rise when corporate tax receipts fall sharply by year's end. (Corporations are paying 90% of their 1953 taxes in the first half...
...obsessed by failure, Blakelock's mind began to crumble. He took to wearing multicolored sashes about his waist, tucking an antique dagger in his belt, bedecking himself with gaudy beads and trinkets. And while his growing family was forced to scrimp for food, he began to imagine himself a millionaire. Finally, in 1899, on the day that his ninth child was born, he was committed to an asylum. There, hopelessly insane, he spent most of the last 20 years of his life...
With a near-adequate book allowance from the Veterans Administration as backing, most undergraduates scrimp little to pay for their instructor's favorite tome. The problem today is to find the books authorized for purchase. Before the war, the faculty could do little to help students in the search for the printed word because the problem was basically financial. Now, however, the task is not to locate the money needed for book purchases, but to search out a store able to fill the demand for popular texts...
...they scrimp & save to send their children to school and college, and spend money on school buildings and equipment, Americans in general act as though they believe education is a cure for every social ill. But in the way they fail to bestow pay, respect and freedom on their teachers, Americans seem not to understand the first thing about education. Last week the National Opinion Research Center (University of Denver) supplied further evidence of this national ignorance...