Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cost would make construction of such highways impractical, and regular surface roads would be more convenient for short distances. The proposed highways would not "generate a sufficient volume of passenger traffic" to make the scheme pay interest by means of tolls...
...reality Premier Duplessis is being used by these elements of reaction in order to put the quietus upon trade union activity, upon the growing unrest caused by the swelling of the ranks of the unemployed. Hence Duplessis' refusal to cooperate with the Dominion goverment upon a scheme of legislation for Unemployment Insurance...
Leighton cited as the advantage of the scheme the fact that it would given students who came well-prepared a chance to carry on with more mature work and not be "levelled down" by the first year routine. The matter will be purely optional, but should help a large number of men who are eager to advance. Every year, Leighton reported, men who were well up in their studies and who had decided on their fields of concentration began a program of outside reading on their own initiative. It is hoped to give these men the benefit of advice...
...sense on building (TIME, Jan. 17), MARS architects and engineers invoked the authority of the Elizabethan Sir Henry Wotton, Izaak Walton's fishing companion, whose The Elements of Architecture defined good building as "commoditie, firmeness and delight." A "needs" section of the exhibit contained nothing less than a scheme for remodeling London, notable for its acceptance of the present radiating arterial roads and the insertion of park spaces between them so that a series of "green wedges" would penetrate almost to the centre of the city...
...scheme goes back to 1935 when the California Chain Stores Association hired the big Chicago advertising agency of Lord & Thomas to help it defeat a chain-store tax (TIME, Nov. 9, 1936). Lord & Thomas put young Theodore W. Braun on the job. Ted Braun had made something of a reputation as a marketing counsel in Los Angeles. As general manager of the anti-chain-store-tax campaign, he taught California farmers that the chain stores were their customers and friends, and the tax was defeated. As part of Ted Braun's anti-tax campaign, the National Association of Food...