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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...percent figure is based on the expectation that next year's Council will spend $5000, as did this year's. There is considerable room for a reduction of this figure. The largest expenditure this year was $1550 for the NSA, most of which went for representatives' expenses to various conventions. The rest of the budget consists of many small items. The total of these is greatly increased by the lack of any coordination in spending. The Council approves an expenditure, and a committee chairman takes care of it in his own way. For example, the Council's printing this year...
...teachers, Schweitzer in February, 1948, mailed out letters to various university officials, asking for recommendations. One of these letters was received at Harvard by Edwin B. Newman, chairman of the Psychology Department. To teach at Bloomfield, the letter said, a man must have these qualifications...
This was simply a compilation of a series of classified-secret tests run off early this year between the huge now B-36 and various service model jet-fighters. The B-36, a six-engined, 5000-mile range heavy bomber, was the Air Force's big bid for strategic bombing supremacy; as such, it had come in for lots of criticism. It was too slow, too big; it could not maneuver. At one time there was a serious move to halve the B-36 contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests...
...comparatively simple process; at present there is a bill before the State legislature providing for a change in the depreciation system and the recall of the Metropolitan District Obligation bond issue. The same bill would transfer the ownership of all transit structures (subways, elevated lines) from the various cities and towns to the MTA. In addition, Dever has proposed that the MTA, since it is now completely State owned, be relieved of all State taxes...
...Lyndon Teachers' College, a state teachers' college in Vermont, the dean of the college, Luther Macnair, resigned his position in March, 1948. Macnair, then vice-chairman of the state Progressive Party, stated that he was under considerable pressure from various sources, including Burlington newspapers, at the time of his resignation...