Word: fixedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were dropping out of school, she went to their homes to learn why. They were needed as breadwinners. Too often, their parents had lost jobs because they were illiterate or unskilled. The children could get work while they were young, but one day they would be in the same fix. Emily decided to start a "second chance" school for adults -to prove that opportunity always knocks twice...
...licked another enemy of prefabs-depreciation. Under his "package" financing plan, the buyer pays a small amount monthly into a depreciation fund. So he has the cash for painting, etc. when he needs it; the mortgage holder has it also, if he has to take over and fix up the house. To date, Home-Ola has had little trouble with building unions about getting its houses put up, although some cities (Paterson, N.J. and Jackson, Mich.) have barred it because of zoning restrictions. The house can be erected in three days by three or four nonprofessionals. Jacques's daughter...
...does not argue that it is right that unions should escape responsibility for the acts of their agents. He does not argue that it is right for unions to violate their contracts. He does not argue that it is right for unions to combine with others to fix prices or restrict competition. This, apparently, would be carrying the matter a little...
...Colgate soap, were retailed as a "package" for 89?. Results were so spectacular that they caught the eye of Chicago's famed advertising millionaire, Albert Lasker (Lord & Thomas), who owned the Pepsodent Co., and a gloomy balance sheet. From a distance, Luckman looked like the man to fix this. Closeup, he looked entirely too young. Calmly Luckman lied to Lasker about his age: he said he was 30, instead of 26. Lasker hired him as salesmanager, at $10,000 a year...
...Herald reporter (at $34.79 a week, the Newspaper Guild scale for beginners), Phoebe Hearst gets up early, drives to work (at 7:30 a.m.) in her Buick convertible coupe, gets half an hour for lunch, tries hard to please everybody. Her grandfather said he could fix it with the city editor to give her easier hours, but she said no. "I'm learning a different side of life," said the fledgling Hearstling last week, "and meeting some strange people-interesting in their own little...