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U.S. childhood and U.S. education were last week facing a growing wartime problem: the flight of high-school children to the pied piping of wartime jobs. A New York State educators' committee called this "a national hazard" which would create a great postwar "problem of educational rehabilitation." The Children...
Sennets and Tuckets. Technically, a fanfare is a brief passage (from two to 25 seconds) for brasses, employed as an attention-getter for what follows. The Goossens fanfares, however, are more elaborate compositions, some scored for full orchestra, running as long as three minutes. Most of them explore themes suggested...
For their extra effort, the professors get the Navy's praise, no extra pay. Their reactions have the variety to be expected in a democratic faculty.* Samples:
> The rollback victims unanimously contended that OPA's plans were both stupid and ruinous. Samples: the National Coffee Association pointed out that a 3?-a-lb. reduction in coffee prices would save the consumer a neat 36? in a whole year, while costing taxpayers $30,000,000 a year...
All this, of course, will become a gigantic boondoggle for the benefit of foreigners alone unless U.S. bankers are wise in picking the purposes and setting the conditions of investment and unless U.S. politicians become skilled in understanding and explaining the tariff policies that must accompany foreign investment. Yet, beckoning...