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The teachers had first taken their salary demands to the city. They wanted, among other things, a permanent raise in minimums from $1,775 to $2,400, in maximums from $2,975 to $4,000. The city's answer was that Buffalo is broke, and that only the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Strike | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

A Global Granary? The surplus-producing nations wanted to empower F.A.O. to distribute surplus foods where they were most needed and thus support the producer's market prices. Anxious to become self-sufficient, the importing nations were leary of direct F.A.O. intervention, tried to put it in an advisory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Food by a Miracle? | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Britain and America, by demolishing Fascist military structure, preventing Communist seizure of power, and granting the Italians a cooling period during which they can freely organize them selves, will empower them to work out by themselves their own salvation and choose according to their own wits their own form of...

Author: By Gaetano Salvemini, | Title: Salvemini Fears Continued Fascism in Post War World | 5/28/1943 | See Source »

> He urged Congress indirectly, through a letter to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, to empower him to repeal individual items in bills (a death blow to pork-barrel legislation). He went ahead with plans for manpower mobilization-under which the 26,500,000 men registered in the draft will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: President's Week, Mar. 23, 1942 | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

The world watched. Only 27 days before, the House had passed a bill, 259-to-138, empowering the President to arm merchant ships. The Senate had added two amendments, which would empower the President to send U.S. ships into any port in the world. The question before the House: Should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Noble Experiment No. 2 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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