Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact of the survey is that, as a group, they have done well financially. As of 1947, the median income for all American men was $2,200, but the Old Grad was making well over twice as much. Only one in 200 was unemployed; only 16% held minor or manual jobs. The rest were in business (53%), became doctors, lawyers or dentists (16%), teachers (16%), clergymen (4%), artists or scientists (1% each). The doctors were the biggest earners: over half making more than $7,500 a year. The graduates at the bottom of the economic pyramid: teachers and preachers (median...
When TIME'S Midwest correspondents met for a conference in Chicago last week, the odd sources of stories were favorite topics of conversation at formal and informal sessions. A revised edition of our correspondents' manual, written by Lawrence Laybourne, general manager of TIME Inc.'s U.S. and Canadian News Service, was distributed at the meeting. Its first sentences: "Long ago we coined an adjective-'TIMEworthy'-to describe a news story for TIME. This is a matter which has significance and interest not merely to the community or region where it happens but to all TIME...
...addition to transmitting weather data, the stations carry on research projects. The Weather Bureau emphasizes that the student program is much more than a summer jaunt and will require a great deal of manual labor. As compensation, the students will have a chance to observe "very important and unique scientific work" in a fascinating, little known part of the world...
...Johannesburg last week Paton announced that current world conditions had left him feeling so "uncertain and politically frustrated" that he and his wife were going into seclusion for a year or more. His asylum: a Negro tuberculosis settlement some 25 miles from Durban where he will help with the manual labor.* A switch on the real-life story of Commander Howard W. Gilmore. Mortally wounded by Jap gunfire on the bridge of his submarine, Gilmore ordered his men to "Take her down!", rode to a hero's grave to save his craft...
...should be a black Homburg or a bowler from Lock, his tie subdued, his shoes black. It helps to have a rich wife. For the guidance of young Third Secretary John Bull and his wife, an official in the Foreign Office service four years ago wrote a confidential manual of procedure. It was distributed, but hastily withdrawn. Sample advice...