Word: older
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the major ideals behind the conception of the library was the hope that it would make the students aware of books, and although the positive personality of the building itself sometimes overclouds the significance of its contents, it has made an impression that Widener never could have. The older building represents the abstract idea of the great library; Lamont is its working avatar...
...Wheel of Fortune. The young man who has undertaken this formidable task was born at Yorba Linda, Calif, to Hannah Milhous and Francis Anthony Nixon. When Dick was 13, his older brother Harold contracted TB. Hannah Nixon took him to Arizona where, on visits, Dick earned money as barker for a wheel of fortune carnival booth. In Whittier, Calif., where the Nixons had moved after their Yorba Linda lemon grove failed, Frank and the boys kept the home, grocery store and filling station going. After five years in Arizona. Harold died* and Hannah returned to Whittier, where she worked...
...will be just enough to cover maintenance, bond interest and amortization. Thus, most of the rent the company pays Sevierville will go back to Cherokee as interest and amortization on its bonds. In effect, the company, which employs 700, will get a modern, tax-free plant, instead of an older building on which it paid taxes in Knoxville. While Knoxville was angry about the deal, Sevierville was jubilant, figured it meant hundreds of new jobs for the townspeople and more money in the pockets of merchants...
...sure, women) have entered the banking and finance field, obviously because of the depression and the war. Thus, banks themselves predict a great influx of younger administrators because of the scarcity of competition for the lucrative jobs day by day being vacated by the retirement of older men. And banks, staid and traditional as they may appear to be, are taking a progressive and competitive concern in their hiring programs. What, then, do these companies offer...
...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...