Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shoemaker Melville can afford to help the industry out. With his warehouses full of leather, the price increase should give him a nice inventory profit. Price boosts may work quite satisfactorily until they begin to set consumption back to the 1929 level...
...Ministry a $10,000,000 educational order for two-motored Handley Page Hampden bombers. Before the war started, Canadian Associated, foreseeing business ahead, began constructing two assembly plants, in Toronto and Montreal. Last week, while fuselages, wings and landing gears were coming off the old assembly lines (to be set up later in the Toronto and Montreal plants), it was announced at Ottawa that negotiations were about complete for new British war orders to Canadian Associated. The first order was whispered to be for $20,000,000 worth of bombers, and plenty more later...
British papers, still sold in France, are avidly read for news suppressed by French censors. The London Times and Daily Telegraph run to 16 pages, censored before they are set up in type, without those mysterious omissions that irritate readers of the French press. A typical French daily has only four pages and contains virtually no news except Army communiques. To fill out the sparse fare supplied by the Ministry of Information, editors translate dispatches from British papers...
Revision of Harvard's constitutional set-up in the direction of more Faculty democracy is called for in two recent articles in leading liberal weeklies criticizing the Administration's tenure policies...
...concludes that Harvard should reconsider its constitutional set-up, and ask itself this question: "Can the complex modern university he governed both wisely and satisfactorily without effective, constitutional participation of its faculties in the decision of questions of general policy bearing directly on their several education functions...