Word: localness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm). She gets three (of four) children off to public school, does her grocery shopping at a supermarket, tries to spend a day a week at the Red Cross office-filing, typing, helping with organizational chores. She is a qualified nurse's aid, serves part-time in the local hospital, plays bridge with the girls, attends P.T.A. meetings, keeps her Washington social life to a minimum, and on the whole, keeps her children from the public glare as well as her pretty face out of the papers...
...over three years-to an average $3.40 an hour -which the union says is really 22?). But the basic issue was industry's demand for changes in the contract's twelve-year-old Section 2-B, which had deprived the steel companies of the right to change "local working conditions"-practices and customs, varying from one plant to another, governing such matters as crew sizes, the duties of particular jobs...
...fate of local amusement-type pinball machines still remains in doubt. The Cambridge Licensing Board's recent announcement that it will not renew pinball licenses applies to the bino-type machine, a gambling type on which money...
Although the pinball machines attract considerable attention, local restaurant owners discount the effect their removal would have. "The pinball machines form a small percentage of our business," stated Henry Baumann, owner of Elsie's. "The boys use them to relax. They are the ones who would complain if the machines were removed...
...value of input-output analysis to individual industries and local areas is perhaps more limited than its value to a national government, but an industrialist does benefit by knowing the extent to which demand for his product might be affected by economic change. Input-output analysis will not replace, and was not intended to replace the entrepreneur's vital role of seeking profits by anticipating changes in taste and technology, but it does provide throughout the economic system many useful indicators of the results of a change--large or small--in one of the sectors