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This plan was undoubtedly announced before the last details were worked out, due to the pressure of criticism and approaching Congressional elections. Recognizing the shortcomings of the price system as a method of distribution, it retains production control to maintain the price structure as far as possible, but goes further to resolve the anomaly of want in the midst of plenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANT IN PLENTY | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Toiling and conscientious "Roy" Bulkley is. He works as hard as any man in the Senate. If he wavers on some national issues, that, his friends maintain, is because his mind moves deliberately, not because he is a trimmer. In support of this theory are his three votes against the Soldiers' Bonus, a remark he once made to Ohio Democratic chieftains who threatened to purge him unless he backed their candidate for a judgeship: "I guess it's more important for us to get a good judge than for me to stay in the Senate." Washington consensus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

More than 85% of the students attending U.S. public high schools today must find jobs soon after graduation. Yet a large percent of U.S. high schools stubbornly maintain a curriculum designed chiefly for college preparatory training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pegs v. Holes | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...prove that democracy can maintain itself as master of its own destiny, feed its hungry, house its homeless and provide work for its idle; and prove that these things can be done without reliance on political racketeers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Major Test | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...week Air Facts presented its score for this year's first nine months: 175 pilots and passengers killed in 109 accidents, 81.7% due directly to pilot mistake or faulty judgment. It found only 4.6% due to structural failure. More than half the accidents resulted from stalls (failure to maintain minimum flying speed), mostly during low altitude acrobatics (in which, comments Air Facts, no pilot excels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Airsumptions | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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