Word: hardes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bender collected $250 a day from Hoffa & Co.-a total of $19,250 from August to December-plus an additional $9,000 for expenses, including rent on Bender's regular Washington office. "I have never worked harder in my life," protested Bender, but it seemed that the only hard work involved was typing copies of letters, and a secretary did that...
Known in the scientific world as a rollicking wit and a hard worker, stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 190 Ibs.) Physicist Herb York got his start in science as a small boy in Rochester, N.Y., when his uncle gave him a book on astronomy. He worked his way through the University of Rochester (A.B. '41, Phi Beta Kappa), took his Master's in 1943. After that he joined the parade of topnotch atomic physicists at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory, later became associate director. In March he moved his wife and three children...
...fewer than 7,800,000 World War II vets took on-job or school training, 2,200,000 of them in college. There they built no Hutchins "hobo jungles" but Quonset villages whence hard-working married vets set new high standards of academic achievement. "They knew how to move," says a Harvard dean, "and they moved." They more than doubled the number who, by prewar standards, would have been trained for the professions: 168,000 doctors and dentists, 105,000 lawyers, 93,000 social scientists and economists, 238,000 teachers, 440,000 engineers, 112,000 scientists...
...over the years the U.S. has made and learned new rules all its own. The test-and the proof that the U.S. had learned its lessons well-was the recession. It not only highlighted the changes in the economy, but proved beyond doubt that the U.S. could take a hard knock and come bouncing quickly back. In the new economy...
...loan associations-have grown up that the nation's credit pool is increasingly independent of the FRB. Nor was Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. in any tearing hurry to force feed the economy. Said Martin: "During a boom, waste and inefficiency creep in naturally. It's hard not to believe that recession does a lot of business a lot of good...