Word: sugaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University's most distant holding in the Western Hemisphere, the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum at Soledad, Cuba, was established in 1900 as the result of a gift from Edwin F. Atkins, owner of large estates in Cuba, who amassed a fortune as a sugar planter. Soledad, only Botanical Garden in tropical America not government supported, is under the direction of Dr. Arthur G. Kevorkin, who returns to Cambridge four months each Fall to give a course in tropical Botany. Extensive research is conducted in economic Botany, the year around Cuban climate being particularly adapted to such experiments since...
Partial payment for the Student Council's gift of sugar and chocolate came from the University of Vienna yesterday in the form of a letter to the Food Relief Committee offering board and lodging to two Harvard students in the Austrian capital...
Four days after the election, President Truman threw in the sponge in his administration's long-lost battle to hang on to price controls. In one sweeping order, the President brushed off price controls on everything but sugar and rice (both in short supply) and on rents. Out went the last wage and salary controls...
...quickest possible comprehensive recommendation" for relief from shortages in sugar, soap, fats, oils and foods...
Anticipating the pressure of a new Congress, President Truman has already removed price, wage, and salary controls except the ceilings on rent, rice, and sugar. And in one of the earliest moves of new GOP leaders, Representative Joe Martin has announced intentions to reduce income taxes by 20 per cent, and a consequent paring of appropriations for all government projects, including an Army and Navy engaged in vital Occupation duties. Further Republican proposals in this revival of the Crystal Palace era of laissez-faire include shelving of the minimum-wage bill and President Truman's measure to establish a Federal...