Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...that is just the beginning. The Young commission report calls for a network of community colleges-some with two-year courses leading possibly to the degrees of A.A. (Associate in Arts) and A.A.S. (Associate in Applied Science)-for students who want college-level study at low tuitions and close to home. Under New York's plan, half the capital cost must come from the local community. In addition, the community must furnish a third of the operating cost, with another third coming from tuition (probably about $150 a year). The rest of the money will come from the state...
...Congress neared the end of the long push on the nation's spending program for fiscal 1951, a level Southern voice echoed through the House's chamber. It was an echo which would haunt every home, farm and business in the nation. Lean,, black-browed Congressman George Mahon of Colorado City, Texas, was telling his colleagues last week that they had only begun to spend the people's money...
...Pacific, where he ran the 300-plane B-29 raids against Japan, he suddenly pulled the high-tailed bombers down from the clouds, took out their guns and gunners, and overloaded them with fire bombs to dump on Japan from low level. It was a risk that could have wrecked an air fleet and a career, but it caught the Japanese off guard, ripped Tokyo and three other industrial centers as devastatingly (over a period of ten days) as the atom bomb tore up Hiroshima...
...through all this, on the day-to-day level there was really nothing you could do. That was another summer fact. In Korea there was a war, and in Cambridge you bought ashtrays, and stood in book lines, and told the University whether or not you operated a car. For a year that was the way things would be. For the more distant future, you could walk at night down to the Charles, stand there with the lights of the Business School reflecting clean and bright off the water, and quietly hope...
...Naval Science and his entire staff assemble and consider all applications. Selection of the quota set for that year by the Navy Department is arrived at and that information is disseminated. The quota this year (01/09/1950) is fifty students, who may be selected only at the entering freshman level. Naval Science textbooks and uniforms are provided "Contract" students, and during the last two years of the course (that is, after completion of the initial two years), subsistence at the rate of ninety cents a day is paid. Contract students' pay while on the required summer, training period...