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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the bad habits belong to labor: wage increases not based upon increases in productivity mean higher prices, lower sales, fewer jobs. "The pattern of spectacular competitive wage increases is relatively new in American labor. It arose after 1946 because of special postwar conditions...
Governor Foster Furcolo has proclaimed today "Higher Education Day," and, incidentally, NBC will tonight rebroadcast the Harvard's Day radio program, "The Case for the College...
...Strontium-90 from fallout may be a greater-than-average danger to the aged as well as the very young (whose fast-growing bones naturally take up the calcium-mimicking element quickly). A group of Columbia University scientists found that in oldsters over 60, the strontium uptake appeared markedly higher than in their juniors aged 20 to 60, was concentrated in the vertebrae, the breastbone and the ribs...
...what borrowers-who find the cost of money too high-find irritating, is that bank profits are still rising despite all the wailing about zooming costs. Last week Manhattan's First National City Bank, Manufacturers Trust and Mellon National Bank & Trust all reported first-quarter earnings sharply higher than last year, up as much...
...false and the influence deplorable. The Pudding seeks for "gentlemen", not in the sense of men of honor, nor in that of men of polished manners, but in that of men of large means and little brains, possessed with the singular delusion that they occupy a social position higher than the rest of mankind... a few men of ability are admitted on condition of repaying by uniform obsequiousness, the favor of associating not indeed on terms of equality, but by tolerance with persons so immeasurably their superiors...