Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regards as more effective treatment: proper doses of idleness, for "idleness is a part of function." A change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape themselves in idle periods." Ogilvie adds: "Science is advanced further in a shorter time by the informal chatter of a few like-minded friends over cocktails than by the formal exchange of a paper or by any number of congresses...
Federal economists estimated that between now and July, another 2,000,000 persons will find seasonal jobs, most of them on farms. Even if that happened, payrolls would still be 1,800,000 under last summer's. After seven years in which an expanding economy had added 7,500,000 jobs, absorbed the yearly increase in the labor force and cut unemployment to an irreducible minimum, the job climate had changed. With 600,000 ex-G.I.s and other new recruits added to the labor force since last year, the number looking for jobs was increasing considerably faster than...
...admission prices will have to be increased; and thus the motion-picture industry will be handicapped in its race with competing amusements . . ." In Manhattan, some exhibitors are threatening to boycott Fox films. Even Fox's own Joe Schenck-now that he is to be only an exhibitor-may find himself on the other side of the bargaining fence...
...annual stockholders' meeting has been transacted across the Hudson River in Hoboken, N.J., in a small bank building.* Last week at Big Steel's annual meeting, only 350 stockholders (out of a total of 228,000) bothered to come. But not even all of them could find a place to sit; for three sweltering hours 50 of them had to stand in a cramped, stuffy room...
...like to aid. The issue was which of two sides to help. In China, the choice was between the National Government and the Communists. The CRIMSON implicitly chose a third--the nice middle-of-the-road liberals who, unfortunately, are unable to repeal the law of polarization, and therefore find it easier to exist in the minds of incipient journalists than in the land of China. W. D. Mueller...