Word: attractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cannon also surprised fellow textilemen. For months Southern mill owners have been discussing the need to raise pay to attract and hold good employees in the rapidly urbanizing and industrializing South. There are 552,000 textile workers in the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Recently, President J. Spencer Love of the nation's largest textile firm, Burlington Industries Inc. (52,000 employees), suggested that Congress raise the national minimum wage, now $1, to $1.25 an hour, so all mill operators would have to go up and none could chisel on wages to undercut his competitors on prices...
...year by the major departments in that it puts all responsibility for the program on the departments. The only difference is that the tutorial would be given for credit and that enrollment in it would be voluntary One University official who favors such a program estimates that it would attract twenty to thirty students in each department and would thus involve the addition of only three tutor hours a week...
...major works in favor of secondary material, very often of little interest of merit. Elizabethan literature is now taught in three different courses: porse poetry, and drama; the Eighteenth Century receives as many, while such courses as "English Literature from 1603 to the Restoration, exclusive of Drama" can attract only the most esoteric of concentrators...
...farm-price-support program. Said Ike in his farm message to Congress: ¶ It "has not worked." Most of the money goes to larger producers who need no help. "It does little to help the farmers in greatest difficulty." ¶ It breeds ever bigger surpluses, because high support prices attract capital to supported crops, and soaring farm technology keeps defeating crop-control measures. ¶ It is "excessively expensive." Farm-stabilization costs are running to $5.4 billion this year, and surpluses have piled up so high that the cost of storing the stuff will soon run to $1 billion a year...
...gravitational variations had been measured, the NASA scientists could calculate their effect on the shape of the earth. The excess of gravitation around the North Pole, for instance, indicates an extra 200-ft. bulge of rock over an area equivalent to the Atlantic Ocean. This extra mass would attract enough sea water to raise sea level about 50 ft. above the theoretical curve of an ideally plastic earth. None of the newfound bulges are large compared to the polar spin-flattening (about 13 miles), but they may cast new light on the earth's mysterious interior...