Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters have made is a temporary way of supplying people to live in the Houses in lieu of non-existent undergraduates. Their suggestion is economically sound--it costs nothing and pays its own way. It worked to the benefit of the Houses in the 1930's; there is no reason why it should not do so again...
...President's key line: "The reason we have very great and expensive intelligence forces is to keep us informed as well as they possibly...
Thus, by warning the U.S.S.R. that it would not necessarily be permitted to mobilize for and then deliver the first devastating blow, the U.S. last week gave the U.S.S.R. one more reason for not trying to settle diplomatic adventures by force...
...himself about unemployment problems (TIME, March 2), Mitchell was basing his rosy-pink prediction on a recent Labor Department finding on the current high unemployment rate.* The finding: as business picks up, many industrial employers are paying for overtime instead of hiring or rehiring additional workers. Reason: liberal labor contracts have added so many fringe-benefit costs to each employee that it is cheaper-up to a point-to work fewer employees overtime than to add others. For evidence, the Labor Department points out that from January 1958 to January 1959, the number of production workers employed in U.S. industry...
...orders pile up and confidence grows during 1959, Mitchell & Co. reason, employers will come around to deciding that adding workers makes more sense than adding overtime. Then hiring will turn up, and the unemployment total will start shrinking fast...