Word: questions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supposed to cover this gap, but it is due to lapse in 1952. There is a good possibility that it may be continued much longer than this for political reasons. But if Congress fails to renew the Plan, and at the same time tactfully continues to duck the question of our own trade barriers, a dollar starved Europe is going to have to arable around pretty hard to keep from a serious economic cave...
...doubtless hear more of Commissioner McGrath's proposal, as well as more about its forerunner, the recommendation of the President's Commission on Higher Education calling for doubled college enrollments by 1960 (TIME, Dec. 29, 1947). But last week Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris interrupted with a question. If the U.S. was determined to send so many Americans to college, could it also provide the sort of jobs college graduates have come to expect? In a book called The Market for College Graduates (Harvard University Press; $4), Economist Harris answered his own question...
...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
...show was intended to represent solutions to "the problem of adequately-or gloriously-commemorating the sacrifice of those soldiers and sailors who died in battle." The question was: Were its solutions adequate, let alone glorious...
...from the old country who had come to join her brother in the U.S. Back at Rutgers in 1918 as a lecturer in soil microbiology, after getting his Ph.D. at the University of California, Waksman worked mostly on the soil problems of farmers. But he began asking himself a question which is still far from answered: What do microbes do to the soil, to each other, and ultimately...