Word: hough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After five years as a New Jersey schoolteacher, Edward M. Hough, 28, took one more look at his five-day job-at $74 a week-and decided that he was through. He liked his job teaching fifth grade at Trenton's McClelland School, and, with a master's degree in education behind him, he had long planned to make teaching his career. But he also had to support his wife and three-year-old twins, and to make ends meet, he was on a treadmill of odd jobs outside of school hours: bill collecting, refereeing occasional basketball...
Last week Hough was settled in a new and better-paying job, as lessee of a filling station on his own. His starting income there was $100 a week, and the prospects looked good for making more. With him, as the station's manager, was another ex-teacher, Walter E. Almond, 30. Almond, also an M.A. and formerly a handicrafts instructor at Trenton's Junior High School No. 3, had had to supplement his $74 a week by working as a part-time painter, auto mechanic and roofer. Like Hough, he regretted leaving his profession. His starting salary...
...prices which has been going on since early 1951 (see chart). For businessmen, the long decline in commodity prices was more significant than the ups & downs of the stock market, since it is the prices of raw materials that, in the long run determine many retail prices. And even hough some retail prices are still rising the worldwide price trend, forecast by commodities is downward. Many of the commodities, like wool and rubber, which had the biggest rise right after the Korean war, have had the sharpest fall since. The Government's index of all commodities (2,000 separate...
Howard W. Barnes '55, of Salt Lake City and Dusster House and Jerry F. Hough '55, of California and Kirkland House, will assume the assistant managerial positions in track and basketball, for the 1953-54 season...
...Westerners," Zeidler declared, "see their sons leaving farms for Korea. And event hough they want an aggressive foreign policy, they don't want to fight. They blame all Communists for the war, and Senator McCarthy's attacks appeal to them...