Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Political geographers, noting that the road to the White House is impassable from the South but wide open from the West, suspect that Johnson might have more than one reason for his westward shift in thinking. Cracked the New York Daily News: "We'd say it's at least a 100-to-1 shot that, for all his coy disclaimers, Senator Johnson hopes to be President Johnson some fine...
...Abraham Gilbert, onetime vice president of a local of a repairmen and electrical workers union, said that coin-machine employees make "very good wages" and need no union. Actually, said he, the operators' association needed the union to scare competitors away with picketing. For that reason the association paid dues and union expenses...
...refused to sign a new U.M.W. contract under which miners would get $14.25 a day to enter a mine, 76? more per ton to load coal) have spurred mine owners to mechanize. But Harlan's shallow (32 in. to 48 in.) seams make mechanization impractical. A third reason: rail costs from the heart of the Appalachian soft coal field have soared...
...straightness of the second part. Probably not since Wilberforce has Britain had a more dedicated reformer, and last week, from the leftist New Statesman ("Here it is at last-and no anticlimax either") to the conservative Economist ("The Home Office deserves unstinting congratulations"), the press was singing his praises. Reason: Rab Butler's long-awaited White Paper on the condition of Britain's major prisons...
...reason for the possible change of scene was the lack of immediate funds needed to build a new center. A part of the Program for Harvard College, the proposed $1 million structure on Plympton and Mount Auburn Streets has yet to attract a donor willing to contribute a sizeable amount...