Word: offerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minimum wages still hang below mainland standards, fret about the population surge that is adding 16,000 people a year to Martinique's current 265,000 (on 385 sq. mi.) and Guadeloupe's 250,000 (on 588 sq. mi.). A potential income source is tourism; the islands offer balmy beaches, inexpensive French champagne and perfume. But most hotels are still of mosquito-net, pre-Hilton vintage...
...those Depression days, the young lawyer had to canvass ten firms before he got his first offer. When he applied for a job at the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, which numbered U.S. Steel among its clients, the official who interviewed Roger Blough noted: "First-class chap; good, clean-looking, talked intelligently. We would probably make no mistake." Irving Olds, former chairman of U.S. Steel, who moved into the company from White & Case himself, puts it another way: "Blough was one of those fellows who turn up no more than once in ten years...
Last week some 4,000 investors a day, with a similar desire to see their money grow, were plunking $10 million daily into mutual funds, which offer an almost irresistible lure: the chance to make a profit with a minimum of risk and worry. The investor entrusts his money to an organization that invests it in dozens-sometimes hundreds-of U.S. companies, spreading his risk as wide as the economy. Even more important, he also buys savvy in the stock market, letting the fund managers do his buying and selling for him. Says a St. Louis businessman who gave...
...takes his learning where he finds it, slowly works out a philosophy ("Never Make an Offer. Budge only for Folding Money"). But he is no cynic, and he cross-questions would-be disillusioners sharply: "Now accordin' to you the newspapers ain't reliable. Is The Times lies? But if it's gonna lie anyway, why is it so borin'?" At eleven, Horatio knew "the local civics of the vice squad ... In architecture, how to make time bombs; in interpersonal relations, how to make zip guns ... In philosophy he knew that the Future Lies Ahead...
...second possibility, and a more feasible one, he feels, would be for the Radcliffe dormitories to adopt on their own some of the intellectual activities that the Houses offer. He would like to see each dorm build up a staff of non-resident tutor affiliates, not necessarily all from one House, and he thinks the dorms could benefit from such Harvard institutions as concentration tables and dorm review sessions for general exams...