Word: setup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting this week, each girl at Wellesley will be offered individual phone service, similar to the setup here in Cambridge. Deadlines and busy signals will be a thing of the past to the girl who tries a new line, and your days need no longer be numberless...
This would not be acceleration which would merely shorten and compress the existing course program; it would probably involve many changes in the course setup itself. The idea of a three-year curriculum actually dates back to President Eliot...
...December 1950, this question had its inevitable answer. Stanton Griffis was sent to Madrid as ambassador with instructions to prepare the way for bringing Spain into the European defense setup. He did his job. Last week Washington's decisions and Griffis' work bore two fruits...
Regulation. When questioned about this completely illegal setup, Galveston's public officials made it known that they were stout defenders of the freedom to drink and gamble. Said ex-Police Commissioner Walter L. Johnson: "Galveston was wide open before I was born. It was wide open when I came into office, and I left it wide open. The people of Galveston want an open town." Ambrose Lukovich, his successor, added: "As a reformer ... I don't think I would have been elected." When the committee asked Mayor Herbert Y. Cartwright what it should recommend, he answered: "Regulated prostitution...
...setup is a bureaucratic compromise. As a policymaking agency, DPA stands directly below Wilson's Office of Defense Mobilization and a notch above NPA, which is under the Commerce Department. When William H. Harrison resigned as DPAdministrator two months ago, Charlie Wilson wanted to do away with DPA altogether and put NPA, which is actually straw-bossing the defense program, into its place. But Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer objected; he wanted to keep control over part of the mobilization program...