Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the managers are not the men who pick their successors. Their recommendations are considered as one of many criteria by the Director of Student Employment, who is the person who makes the final appointment. Again you are welcome to our files to find out that the influence of the past managers is but one of many factors taken into account...
...harsh criticisms which have been leveled against the HSA. While admitting that many of the agency directors "could not be called needy in any sense of the term," it offers no plan to correct this, but merely suggests that the practice stop. The policy of having agency directors pick their own successors with a rubber stamp approval from the board of directors is mentioned, but there follows no discussion of the possible harmful implications of this procedure. No attempt is made to evaluate the high prices of such groups as the milk and donut concession, which enjoys a virtual monopoly...
Half a century ago, rough and ready U.S. journalism boiled with such competition that Bostonians could take their daily pick of twelve daily English-language papers, Chicagoans of ten, New Yorkers of 20. By 1916, the alltime peak year, no less than 2,461 dailies were in business. By last week, when the American Newspaper Publishers Association met for its annual convention in New York, the total number of U.S. dailies had dropped to about 1,750. And in only 76 U.S. communities were there dailies in competition...
...pick up your napkin until others do, and try to make as little noise as possible when eating...
...previous record of 146% in February 1957. The FRB also revised upward its February industrial output figure from 144%, as previously announced, to 145%. Most encouraging was the fact that the extra boost in production has come from nondurable goods (see chart). Economists are hopeful "that durable goods will pick up faster, give the economy a new push...