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...Congress' record has not been all black. The bill to merge the armed forces, which is being pushed to passage this week, has been long needed, and will straighten out a host of pointless complexities, New, as Congressional investigating committees rush out to diverse points, hope must be suspended until next January. Perhaps then the legislators will form a consistent policy, a little more free from more sniping at the administration, as to what will eventually do the country most good. This will have to include a broad program of European relief and an understanding as to what part will...
...Straighten a Muddle. When Ernest R. Breech became the executive vice president of Ford in 1946-and began straightening out its muddled accounting system -he looked hard at the tractor deal. The tractors, said he, were costing Ford more to make than Ferguson paid for them. So Breech ended the contract, as of June 30. Ernie Breech also had a personal interest in tractors. Henry II had lured high-priced men like Breech into the company by giving them stock in a new farm-equipment company, the Dearborn Motors Corp. Thus the personal fortunes of the top Ford officials depended...
...Moscow, did not like the fire-alarm theory. He was telling his intimates in his soldier's way last week that the menace to Greece and Turkey was pretty much like the Battle of the Bulge. You had to rush up reinforcements (in this case $400 million) "to straighten the line, but you didn't sit down thereafter and wait for another bulge to happen. George Marshall was trying, like a good campaigner, to get the initiative...
...citizens of Peggy's Cove eat heartily, walk slowly, live long. They do their best to keep the oldtime atmosphere for their summer visitors, from whom they take up to $10,000 every year. But modernism is creeping in. The Nova Scotia government is going to straighten and pave Peggy's Cove Road. Says one of the younger residents, 53-year-old George Swinimer: "I'll be glad to see the pavement. The artists like Peggy's the way it is more than I do. I would like to see even a jukebox...
Through the complex of unanswered dilemmas the basic reality of successful preliminary experiment nevertheless persists. General Education confidently stretches its wings and should shortly straighten up to fly right. Majority opinion declared the courses had lived up to expectations of the new concept; two thirds found more interest than elsewhere in the College; and half claimed greater worth for the time spent than that offered by any other courses. Substitution of essays for hour exams and quizzes won emphatic praise. Furthermore, the dstinctive, approach outlined for GE courses from the start has been upheld: that brief coverage of numerous topics...