Word: takes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school textbooks depends to a considerable degree on an earnest group of 3,000-members of the National Council for the Social Studies. They are the people who write most of the history for school children, devise courses of study in history, civics, economics, geography, sociology. They take their jobs and themselves seriously. Distressed but not daunted by evidence that, in spite of their textbooks (and the field investigations which they prescribe for students), the world is still full of knaves and fools, this week they published a book* that attempted to get the schools off to a fresh start...
Because no publisher would take a chance on his revolutionary books, Professor Rugg sold or pawned everything he owned, raised $4,000, printed and distributed them himself. They sold like soft drinks in a desert. Today his books are published by Ginn & Co., have sold more than 2,000,000 copies...
Riding the wartime shipping boom, the firm bought ten more ships, sometimes had as many as 50 more under charter and Government allotment. At war's end it sold the Moormack for $400,000, later snapped up the Government's offer to take its huge merchant marine off its hands at dirt cheap prices of $10 to $15 a deadweight ton. The advent of World War II found Moore-McCormack big and respectable (capital: $5,000,000), in hock to the Government and worried over what to do with the surplus ships that the provisions of the Neutrality...
...TAKE THE HIGH ROAD-Wolfgang Langewiesche-Harcourf, Brace...
...Take the High Road is capable of interesting a far more general, more sedentary audience than those whose interest in flying is already active. For Author Langewiesche has an uncommon talent for conveying, not merely describing, physical sensations. He is, moreover, both as airman and writer, a skilled amateur, with the wisdom never to desert his amateur standing. Of the 25 photographs, most are well above the shoddy average for book illustration, a few are magically good...