Word: plan
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...second argument given for the current plan is the loss in rent revenue that would occur if every empty space in the Houses were filled and vacancies created in the outside dormitories. But the House system is theoretically a key part of a Harvard education. It is hard to deny the benefits of this system to qualified students because of these financial considerations...
This is the plan: Captain Myles Huntington will center a first line with Bill Garrity and Bob DiBlasio at the wings; Dave Abbot will center a second (third) line with Doug Anderson and Shorty Minot at the wings; and Joe Kittredge will center a third (second) line with Lew Preston and Carl Timpson as the wingmen...
...sees it, the days of appendectomies on farmhouse kitchen tables are gone, and good riddance. "You can train the public to plan in advance and get to the hospital," says Dr. Reeves. "It's better for the patient and better for the doctor. In this day & age, there isn't much point in practicing under pioneer conditions...
...program was rapidly becoming unworkable. The spotty attempts to control crops by cutting acreage had flopped. Despite such cuts, farm mechanization, better planting and fertilizing techniques had pushed harvests to the point where ever-increasing surpluses seemed inevitable. When Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan brought out a new plan of control which would, in effect, have permitted the Government to fix the size of the farmer's income right down to the dollar, the powerful American Farm Bureau Federation revolted. It denounced the plan as a "nationalization of agriculture and the distribution system," plumped for a plan that...
...notable lack of industrial statesmanship. U.S. Steel tried to rally support, as a matter of principle, for its contention that workers as well as management should contribute to pensions. But precedent was against its plea. As far back as 1904, Du Pont, for example, had set up a noncontributory plan; there were an estimated 4,500 other such plans in operation in the U.S. When steelmen finally gave in and guaranteed $100-a-month pensions (including federal aid), their final offer was higher than the amount that the union had been willing to settle for in the beginning. Even then...