Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Luxury-lovers will admit that banking can easily offer as much as any profession in the comfort afforded. Most larger banks, like Prudential, have the strength of Gibraltar, and consequently their employees can be certain of their weekly sustenance. Bankers also have reveled prestige in most American communities and, provided that they work in a reputable establishment, are likely to be in with the "accepted" set of citizens. Especially attractive are hours and conditions...
...those who have poise, personality, and education many of the larger banks offer special executive training courses. These are offered to inexperienced people with college degrees, but often the college man is shifted all around the "back office: and closely checked by an older employee, during his first weeks of employment...
...advantages," e.g., lots of fresh, pure water, a milder climate, plenty of elbow room. Another is the South's progress toward matching New England's pools of skilled labor, its research services, its markets and facilities. "Perhaps the most important of all, the South has a much larger supply of labor, primarily from the farms . . . thus enabling employers to select the youngest and most adaptable...
...submerge at will. Most famed Nautilus (named after Fulton's) was the prodigious sea raider commanded by Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. † Natural uranium from which some of the nonfissionable U-238 has been removed, leaving a larger proportion of fissionable 0-235. *The story of Rickover's campaign to develop the nuclear submarine is told in detail in the book, The Atomic Submarine and Admiral Rickover (Holt; $3.50) by TIME Correspondent Clay Blair Jr., to be published next week...
...tool of South African segregation, but only at the expense of education. Ignorance will only further the separation of the native community, leaving it easy prey to the same kind of nationalism erupting in Kenya. To this extent, the Act is largely self-defeating. But in a larger sense, the new policy is an attempt to set back a force which cannot be stopped. In the same way that segregation in American schools is doomed, the progress of education and the enlightenment it brings makes its constant advance a necessity. Soothing as it is, Malan's dream of the happy...