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...only solution would be to dissolve the Academy as an undergraduate institution and use the plant as a two-year postgraduate academy for welding together and molding the best material from N.R.O.T.C. into the career Naval officers whom we must have to maintain the peace...
...organizers to maintain the wartime level of enthusiasm on the collective farms? By more patriotism; in fact, by keeping alive war psychology...
...producers to maintain a $16-a-ton price throughout the depression. ¶ An electrical cartel managed to manipulate the radio-tube business in such a way that "until 1939, Canadian consumers were deprived of low-priced radio sets of a type which had been available in the U.S. for a considerable period." ¶When the U.S. General Electric Co. and the German Krupp interests made an agreement on the sale of cemented tungsten carbide (for machine tools), Canadian importers could buy it only from G.E., which raised the price from $50 a pound to $453. After the U.S. Government indicted...
...every case labor should recognize that "we cannot hope, with a reduced work week, to maintain now the same take-home pay for labor generally that it has had during the war." In some industries labor would have to reconcile itself to the fact that no increase at all was possible...
Gummere tried to maintain this attitude throughout his tenure of office. "I wasn't in there to present the case of any interest or group," he said. He freely admits that the school system was and still is, snarled with knotty problems. "But I didn't have to play politics and inflate small issues. It was always better when we settled issues, even of a hot racial nature, as quietly and unostentatiously as possible...