Word: content
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Constant employment and well-paid labor produce, in a country like ours, general prosperity, content and cheerfulness...
...Daniel Webster's standard, there was good reason last week for content and cheerfulness in the U.S. In a joint report, the Commerce and Labor Departments announced that U.S. employment in July reached an alltime record level of 64,995,000. This represented an upsurge of 5,000,000 jobs since February, far above the normal seasonal rise of 3,000,000, and put the number of U.S. workers on the job at a full 2,847,000 above a year ago. With average earnings of factory workers up to $1.88 an hour, 8? above a year...
...buying uranium. Last week Defense Production Minister C. D. Howe cleared the air with a statement of the government's uranium policy: ¶ Until March 31, 1962, Ottawa will buy all acceptable uranium concentrates, i.e., 10% U208, at a maximum price of $7.25 per Ib. for the uranium content and will pay premium prices for uranium produced under government contract. ¶ No new premium-price contracts will be put into effect after April i, 1957. ¶ No uranium mine which has not proved its ore body by March 31, 1956, and its readiness to go into production within...
Every year, the 210 families of Temple Avodah. a Reformed Jewish congregation in Oceanside, L.I., had managed to hire a professional cantor for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (in 1955 it falls on Sept. 16-18), even if they had to be content with their temple choir on other holy days. This year, because they could not afford both a cantor and a badly needed new organ.* they decided to buy the organ. But during choir practice recently, temple trustees were struck by a soloist who had not only a rich mezzo-soprano, but a sound knowledge of Hebrew...
...whether Air Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg later on personally released the New York Times story in Washington, I am content to stand on General Stratemeyer's recent statement that this is blaming a mistake on a dead man not in a position to reply. Nobody that I know denies somebody in the Pentagon released it, probably due to a snafu' reminiscent of "Who Promoted Peress?" ANSEL EDWARD TALBERT Military and Aviation Editor New York Herald Tribune New York City...