Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proviso that seniority would govern promotions only where employes of equal merit and ability were involved...
Both Gummere and Delmar Leighton '10, dean of Freshmen, said that preliminary surveys indicate veterans are making scholastic records equal with or better than those of other students. "This is contrary to the view advanced some time ago, that veterans would have to take it easy in school after coming back from war." Leighton said...
...fail to win." His path to totalitarian power has been religious and ruthless, stubborn and supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen and daughter Carmencita (now 19). His most frequent prayer is: "Lord who entrusted Spain to my hand, do not deny me the grace of handing you back a Spain which is truly Catholic...
...roaring boom in farm lands. He still remembered the World War I boom, in which Iowa land went to $255 an acre-and the bust, when it dropped to $69. So many went broke that in the early 1930's insurance companies held an area equal to eight Iowa counties. But others forgot to remember. Even in Iowa, fat with corn and hogs, a man could not make a long-term profit on land that cost him more than $101 an acre. By last week, the average price of Iowa land had climbed to $140 an acre...
...those who insist on going into the business anyway, prime requisites are i) experience "in someone else's successful service station," 2) capital roughly equal to 10% of the hoped-for gross .(for example, $2,670 to gross $20,000-$30,000). Also helpful: sound mechanical knowledge, "an easy, friendly manner in meeting people...