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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regard to this problem, Dean Bender suggested a possible answer. "Perhaps in a couple of years, when the whole setup is shaken down a bit, we can re-examine class lists and separate a few of the largest courses again. It might be advisable in a few cases." A solution such as this might lead to one obvious trouble, which Dean Buck mentioned in another context--that teachers would have to give a course twice under that arrangement, whereas the joint system removes that old and formerly prevalent evil...
...with an unwieldy name and an unwieldier problem: the crisis in world culture. Was UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) the right way to attack the problem? At Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week, English Art Critic Herbert Read asked that question. His answer...
...profits this year equal to the profits of record-breaking 1947? As a spate of first-quarter reports came out last week, the answer to this $17.4 billion question seemed to be a pleasant yes-and then some. For many a company, first-quarter profits were even fatter than the net for the corresponding period last year...
Eaton set forth, in an answer this week to K-F's suit (K-F is asking $7.8 million damages of Otis & Co.), what he thought was wrong. K-F directors had turned down Eaton's suggestion that they personally pay for the 186,200 shares the company had bought. Then, said Eaton, he discovered that the new financing was not really going to be used, as represented, to step up K-F production to 1,500 cars a day. It would merely restore the working capital K-F had used to pay off a bank loan which...
Franco grew cagey in his dealings with Germany. At Hendaye, France, in the fall of 1940, he talked with Hitler for nine hours in the Führer's private car, "each entranced talker explaining himself in heedless stretches, recognizing no interruption or answer." Hitler thought he had sealed a pact; Feis shows that Franco had come to "seal a vacuum." A few days later Hitler told Mussolini that "rather than have the conversation over again, he would prefer to have three or four teeth pulled out." Franco soon decided that Spain should stay...