Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curriculum. Freshmen will spend the first year trying to understand "modern western civilization?its literature, its art, its political, economic, and scientific bases." They will have "tool courses"? mathematics, languages?if such instruction seems necessary for work they may later be interested in. "Exploratory courses" will give them some taste of a field in which they may later specialize. Bright students may enter the Senior Division (upperclassmen) after one year of preparation, stupid ones may take three years...
...Augustan Greeks. Under Architect Kahn's supervision, plans will be prepared by some 1,500 Soviet architects and engineers for four motor car, truck and cycle factories; nine plants for tractors and farm implements; then for six asbestos, corundum, and graphite factories; two locomotive works; 15 machine tool, cash register, and typewriter factories; 24 cement factories; 126 sawmills; 106 woodworking plants; 27 glass factories; 35 spinning mills; 15 woolen mills; 13 clothing factories; 112 shoe factories; 15 paper mills; 56 food products plants. How many billion dollars would be spent on these establishments after 1930 was not announced...