Word: pros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of silicosis last week caused a wrangle in San Francisco, where doctors, lawyers, miners, mineowners, insurance men, legislators, public health agents and fuss-budgets met to argue the pros & cons of a disease which has lately taken the public spotlight as the subject of bitter industrial controversy...
This weekend there will be four sessions, two on Saturday and two on Sunday. To stimulate discussion of the subject on hand a novel procedure will be used. On Saturday morning the pros and cons of Unemployment Compensation will be argued from briefs as in a courtroom, with an hour allotted to each side. In the afternoon sessions these arguments will be discussed by all members of the group and an endeavor will be made to reach a definite decision...
December 15--Pros. Henry S. Coffin of Union Seminary, New York...
TIME is derelict in reportorial duty when alleging cons without such pros...
...Pros. Of the 2,000 businessmen on hand probably 90% opposed Mr. Williams' aim. To them a guaranteed price for their products looks like a royal road to profits. A fixed price above cost has proved a lifesaver to more than one inefficient producer. Lazy producers have found that a fixed price, below which their smartest competitors cannot go, leaves them more time for golf than when they have to spend long hours at the office wracking their brains for ways to hold their markets. In fact, to most manufacturers guaranteed prices promise heaven on earth so long...