Word: schoolkids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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S.472 would help equalize educational opportunities in all the states by unequal expenditures of $300 million in federal funds. New York, which spends the most on education, would get only $5 for every schoolkid; Mississippi, which spends the least, would get $28.50. Objective: a $50-a-year minimum outlay for the education of every U.S. child. Such controversial issues as segregation and aid to parochial schools were bypassed by a provision allowing each state "home rule" on use of federal funds...
With the help of the American Women's Voluntary Services, more than 100,000 Friendship Boxes had already been shipped overseas. Many a U.S. schoolkid, wrestling with his first letter to a new, unknown friend, discovered that much of what he took for granted in his life looked wonderful written down ("We have mountains . . . fertile valleys . . . beautiful gardens"). When the thank-you notes arrived, he felt even luckier. Sample: "I am not writing so fine, because I have been 31 years in a camp. Well, let us not talk about that...