Word: plan
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...groups, DeVoto recalled, had scared Hollywood into disqualifying almost all minorities from badman roles, and the drive to salve the feelings of friends of the Red Indian was the last straw. Said he: "I protest this new proposal as a lover of horse operas ... If the committee puts its [plan] over, who is going to wing the stagedriver with an arrow and who is going to burn the wagon-train? ... I want that Apache in a Sioux warbonnet to be a hound from hell ... I want the cussed redskins to crawl toward the waterhole in their proper persons...
Another milestone in the development of inter-library cooperation was the establishment in 1948 of the American Association of Research Libraries "Farmington plan...
Under the plan, 54 research libraries (including Harvard) now accept all current books published in nine foreign countries in certain assigned fields. Three more countries will be added this year. The 250 assigned fields cover almost every book published...
...plan was formed when a chock through the union catalogue of the Library of Congress--a file of 12,000,000 volumes in libraries throughout the nation--revealed that less than half the foreign publications were going into American libraries, while those that were arriving were frequently duplicated in many libraries...
Under the "Farmington plan," each new book is listed on a card and sent to the Library of Congress catalogue. Researchers can either use this catalogue or contact directly the library specializing in a particular subject...