Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your April 14 issue, however, you have not only leveled your sights on mink and mink coats, but have now included mink ranchers. Your statement, "Mink ranchers could relax-if the rest of the nation could not," bears an implication which is not only untrue but defames a hard-working industry unjustly. Mink, mink coats, and mink ranchers have nothing whatsoever to do with the raw corruption in Washington...
...morning," Lund has no idea of the size of his audience, but there is no doubt that the show is going over. Swing Shift fan letters pour in at the rate of 350 a week. Sample: "Even if a guy has dinner at 1 a.m., he likes to relax afterward just like the fellow who eats...
...slip about to turn into a full-fledged recession? Some businessmen, such as Montgomery Ward's gloomy Sewell Avery, thought that it would. But the majority did not think so, especially since the Government is expected to relax credit restrictions, which are one of the big curbs on sales. Actually, after the frenzied boom last year, business was getting back to a merely normal boom. Many businessmen who had been allocating their production had a hard time realizing that they had to work to sell goods again...
Mink ranchers could relax-if the rest of the nation could not. Last week's blowup in the Justice Department let out what steam remained in the investigation of Government corruption...
...reason which had not occurred to anyone: they were unhappy. The machines had been set up so as to deprive the men of virtually all human contact with one another; lonely, they fell into melancholy and hypochondria. Mayo prescribed four daily rest periods when the workers could relax, brought in a nurse to whom they could complain. The change wrought by these two relatively minor steps was startling. Turnover immediately diminished; production for the first time reached the established quotas...