Word: selections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gimbel Brothers' Philadelphia store shoppers will soon shop by television. Within a week, televised shows of merchandise from various departments will be run in the store's auditorium (seating capacity 500), and in 22 special "tele-sites" throughout the store. Thus shoppers, relaxing in easy chairs, can select merchandise, buy it when the show ends...
...they hoped to become Protestant ministers. To guide them, the Federal Council of Churches has set up a sort of vocational-guidance unit, Commission on the Ministry. The Commission's aim is to raise the general level of the Protestant ministry -all denominations - by helping the churches to select candidates who are as occupationally fit as they are willing. In future, it will borrow the tactics of big business and use talent scouts to pick the most promising young men from each year's crop of college graduates. Hardest job may be sorting the candidates out by denominations...
Given all the breaks, the Allied Control Council would have to blueprint a miracle. By decree of the Big Three at Potsdam, the Council must destroy Germany's war potential without destroying her ability to subsist. It must select and encourage industries which do not make a war potential (in the long run, most industries do). It must calculate a minimum economy for Germany, and take steps to hold Germany to that minimum...
Another defended the elective system which "allows each student to select the program most beneficial to his future plans and aims," and others noted the danger of abolishing the elective system to student's vocational interests...
...chairman of the Council, Jack Bainton, then asserted that the Spec board had not demonstrated its capability to select its successors. This was on June 8; a four-to-three majority decided the Council's policy...