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...more basic than the questions of amount and segregation, is the dire shortage of teachers. Though intimately connected with school construction, it is badly neglected in the President's proposals. His only offering is "my earnest hope that ... the states and communities will give increasing attention to this taproot of all education ..." It is good to be earnest, but far more important to enact legislation and allocate funds when the nation's schools are short 180,000 teachers. The shortage of teachers and trained personnel can be met only by the federal government. "States and communities" are either unable...
...unorganized than the C.I.O., and in so doing, it managed to solve in many multi-craft industries its old problem of adjustment to the labor structure of the modern factory. The C.I.O. had the brains and the flash, but the A.F.L. had a better connection with the deep taproot of the U.S. labor movement. The older organization embodied the spirit of traditional American unionism-realistic, unaffected by doctrinaire theses, and responsive to the actual conditions of U.S. business with which it had evolved...
...Earrings of Madame De (Franco-London; Arlan Pictures). Director Max Ophuls has drawn on the long European tradition, as if at a taproot through time, to nourish this dainty, completely artificial floret. It is a literary picture, plainly enough, but it is also not much less than a perfect one, a new cinema classic. Luckily, too, the classic should soon be fairly popular in the U.S., even though it is spoken in French (with English subtitles). Two of its players, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, are world-famed, and a third, Vittorio De Sica, is an Italian matinee idol...
...shaft. The lowest saucers would hold a tennis court and a swimming pool. Those who dared to go higher could get a cocktail, or, at the very top, a sun bath. "The construction," said Wright blandly, "would have the same chance in a temblor as a tree with a taproot. The dramatic character. . . is achieved at no sacrifice of either economy or good sense...
...tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree will by suction pressure carry medicine to diseased organs just as effectively as does the bloodstream, Tree Man John Casterline attached a rubber hose to the taproot (main root) of a chestnut tree, planted the other end in a gallon of tannic acid. Within a day, the acid working upward with the sap had begun to check the fungus. Once the parasite was killed, the trees began to flourish again. For protection the acid tanks were allowed to remain...