Word: regions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's huge lead in every region against every candidate, Dick Nixon professed unconcern. Said he: "Gallup isn't going to count the votes on Election...
...Americans change their jobs every month-and half of them move to other towns or states in the process. The increased mobility of the labor force is drastically altering the 4,300 U.S. employment agencies, which until recently have usually limited their operations to a single city or region. Today's trend is to chain agencies, which process job openings and applicants nationally. The pioneer of the chains, and the biggest of them, is Philadelphia-based Snelling and Snelling, whose 119 offices in 29 states last year found jobs for 100,000 Americans and brought...
...reality of the Ruhr has just been made plain in a startling request advanced in Brussels by the region's political leaders. They asked the Common Market for economic aid. The world's greatest industrial workshop now seeks help because it is fighting to change, modernize and revitalize its whole economy...
...cozy bungalows that rank with the best workers' housing anywhere. Krupp has steam-cleaned many of its buildings, August Thyssen has spent $10 million to control the smoke from its stacks, and the grimy company towns of yesteryear have turned into handsome cities. The rural aspects of the region, so long crushed by fumes and neglect, can once again exert their charm. And in many of the plants devoted to the new technology, the most notable sounds nowadays are made by slipping slide rules and scratching drawing pens. The Ruhr is still not a paradise...
...from the Garden. With a fortune approaching $300 million, Irving dominates much of the Maritimes. He owns the biggest hardware chain in the region, the public transit system in Saint John, 1,700,000 acres of woodlands, several mines, a steel fabricating plant, a shipyard, 16 tankers and 2,000 service stations that blazon the Irving name in red, white and blue from Newfoundland to Quebec. Almost everyone in New Brunswick has strong feelings-pro or con-about K. C. Irving. But he has so effectively walled himself from the public that few really know...