Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southwest, FORTUNE found, seniors are talking less & less about money. One business recruiter reported that he went through 30 interviews without once hearing a senior mention salary. "Forty-nines simply will not talk of the future in terms of the dollar," says FORTUNE. "In terms of the Good Life, however, they are most articulate...
...Good Life seems to mean marriage, about three children, a comfortable home, one or maybe two cars ("a little knockabout for the wife"), and later, perhaps, a summer cottage. The senior's dream of the perfect salary: about $10,000 a year...
Good Old Insect Control. As for jobs, merchandising is still top choice (40%). The seniors do not seem to mind selling, though they prefer a salary to a commission. They dislike the high pressure of the insurance salesman's life (only 5% wanted to go into it) and almost none of them care for investment banking. But there is one rather new field that seems to be phenomenally popular: the field of "personnel." Seniors never know quite why the field appeals to them. They almost invariably say "Because I like people...
...dying days of 1944, men maimed and crippled by World War II were already being discharged from U.S. service hospitals and returned to civilian life; a war-loan poster bloomed in the land, showing a soldier with empty sleeve holding a little girl in his good...
...began drably. Well into November the best that Broadway could offer was such a mere second helping as Life with Mother, such hokum-with-cream as Edward, My Son. After that, the season got color in its cheeks, feathers in its cap. At award time, there were no surprise winners: Death of a Salesman had been as excitedly received as any new drama in years, South Pacific saluted with adjectives that rarely come a musical...