Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present labor force is totally inadequate. To temporarily plug the secretarial gap, the Personnel Office has offered to send otherwise competent applicants to typing school and to give dictaphones to any professors who will accept them in place of secretaries. "No one seems very eager to take us up on the dictaphones though," Wessel said. "In the long run, I guess we'll just have to hope for an increase in the birth rate...
...majority offers, and not overlook such domestic considerations as localized unemployment and low pensions, they could bring five years of progressive domestic government. Similarly, if they are sufficiently flexible to reconsider the problems of British Africa and of the challenge of a united continental Europe, Macmillan's government could give England a renewed position in the world...
...fine race to take third behind Bill Schwab of Brown. Mullin was in second position most of the way, but Schwab overhauled him in the last 300 yards. The only other varsity performer in the top ten was Ralph Perry, who came in ninth. Jed Fitzgerald, counted on to give Lowe a battle for first, finished a disappointing 13th...
...Pont family-controlled companies: Delaware Realty & Investment Co., which controls Christiana Securities Co., which in turn controls Du Pont. Furthermore, no longer may Du Pont and G.M. have mutual officers, directors and employees. That means that G.M. will lose five of its 33 directors* unless they choose to give up their Du Pont positions. Altogether, said the court, these restrictions will amply satisfy the Supreme Court's charge to him to "eliminate the effects" of the Du Pont-G.M. tie. Wrote LaBuy, in the meat of a fat (101 pages) decision: "Nothing would support the conclusion that...
...delegates already knew: the U.S. is suffering from a deficit in its balance of payments that is causing an outflow of gold from the U.S., steadily raising the amount of U.S. gold earmarked for European nations. The time has come, said Anderson, for the rest of the world to give a helping hand to the U.S. Said he: "There must be a reorientation of the policies of the earlier postwar period...