Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houses, the essence-what Gordon M. Fair, master of Dunster House, calls the "collegiate University atmosphere"-would be re-distilled, rather than being diluted by volume as it would in the case of organic expension...
...companies whose shares are listed on the Exchange clearly comprise a major part of the miracle of industrial America. And for the shares of these companies the New York Stock Exchange provides a fair, efficient and honest marketplace where the public can buy and sell securities at the fairest prices available--prices which reflect the public's offers to sell and bids to buy. The Exchange truly stands at the heart of the American free enterprise system. And its future is inextricably linked with the future growth and prosperity of our economy...
This year there were two charities which we wished to recommend but could not if we interpreted the restriction literally: the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students and the Salzburg Seminar. Two considerations stood between the rule and a fair analysis of the charities...
While profit-sharing is not a new idea (the first U.S. plan was installed in 1794 by Jefferson's Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin at his Pennsylvania glass plant), it was long opposed by labor leaders as a speed-up substitute for fair wages. Not until World War II, when profit-sharing offered a means of fattening employees' pocketbooks at a time when wages were frozen, did the plans start to spread fast...
...warning for all. For the time being--almost certainly for the duration of the 84th Congress--this may be true. But in politics it is too easy to lapse back into old habits; Congress should finish the good work it has started by drawing up a binding code of fair committee practice...