Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This made local citizenry unhappy and in November 1940 they voted in a new form of government, Plan E with proportional representation. Under this system a non-partisan City Manager assumes the duties of mayor. The revised pattern of city administration went into use in 1941 and at the end of the fiscal year the tax rate tumbled $2.40 in the face of a rising cost of living. Cambridge taxpayers beamed...
City Manager government was in use in Cambridge before the Lyons trial was over...
...Committee was unsuccessful, however, in the first election; not until 1940, on a second try, was Plan E voted as the new charter. A 7,500 majority, carrying all but three of the city's 11 wards, made Cambridge the first city in Massachusetts to use the new plan. In 1941 the first election employing Plan E was held. The successful candidates moved into office January...
Atkinson has economized by skipping the use of contractors whenever possibly. On the repaying of Massachusetts Avenue, for instances, Cambridge has used its own equipment and personnel--an unheard of practice by pre-1941 standards...
Charles Frend, the director, has the good taste and intelligence to use the vast, barren Antarctic as his leading actor. His cameras record, by the thoughtful, subdued use of Technicolor, snow and ice in an amazing variety of hues, from green to an ominous grey. As the party moves painfully from the coastal ice wall to the great glacier, and then to the inland plateau, every change in terrain and sky is effectively caught...