Word: unites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possible solutions that have been put forward to meet this recurring problem include the establishment of a "greater Boston" metropolitan unit, whereby Boston would share the expenses of servicing Harvard, the allocation of costs of servicing Massachusetts' many educational institutions among all the tax-payers of the Commonwealth; and the payment of Harvard to the city of a "service fee," similar to that now being paid by F. H. A. projects
...points. Such a situation is much different from that of a football team, for instance, where one man does the dirty work of blocking and tackling to the exclusion of any spectacular ball-carrying on his part in order to make the team more powerful as a unit. But the blocking back and the unnoticed lineman are expected to do their jobs well, and the tasks they have to handle are just as important in football as that of the pass-catching end. In wrestling, however, one man is asked to go out and try to keep away from...
General Motors is the biggest unit in the great U. S. automobile industry (consumer goods). G. M. had a 1938 profit of $102,320,000 compared to a 1937 profit of $196,436,598. The last quarter of 1938 was the ninth best in G. M. history, contributing $63,932,000 (about 62%) of the year...
...Steel is the biggest unit in the biggest of U. S. producer-goods industries. Compared to a 1937 profit of $94,944,358, U. S. Steel had a 1938 deficit of $7,755,914 -despite a final-quarter pickup in operations which earned a profit...
Wings of all sizes and varieties, wings from nearly every unit of Uncle Sam's naval forces, wings with insignia and wings without-forming the background of almost every scene, they add the only element of color to an insipid "Wings of the Navy," currently at the Metropolitan. Built around a trite story of two brothers in a naval flying school, the picture contains little acting, a dull script, and slowly paced direction. Olivia DeHavilland, apex of the now-winged eternal triangle, has nothing to do except be ornamental; John Payne, who wins the girl from George Brent and sells...