Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were no golf courses in Dublin. Until his father died and the Hogans moved up to Fort Worth, Ben didn't even know there was such a game. In Fort Worth, at twelve, he made the startling discovery that caddies at Glen Garden Country Club made 65? a round, better than he could do selling papers at Union Station. He strolled over, hands in pockets and hat brim upturned, to find out what it took to be a caddy...
...toward the earth in a curve. The greater the projectile's speed, the flatter the-curve of its fall. When the curve gets flat enough, it is a circle matching the curve of the earth's surface. Thus (but for air friction), the projectile might continue forever, round & round the earth. It would still be falling, but the surface of the earth would recede exactly as fast as the fall of the projectile...
...replacement demand, shored up by enormous federal spending. Businessmen would have to cut their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop in the cost of living. By reasonableness on both sides, there was the prospect and the possibility that the great American boom could be leveled off on a high plateau, broad enough to bear the weight of the burdens that...
...Third Round. The rearmament program was notably good news to the aircraft industry, which was saved from disaster by $2 billion in plane orders, but it scared many another businessman into a wild scramble for materials. The new inflationary pressures drove the cost of living up, month after month. And this gave labor a potent argument for its "third round" wage increases, another sharp spur to galloping prices...
...Winner? Whether due to the Act or to a more moderate attitude on the part of labor, the fact was that management came off better in the third round than it had in the first two. Unions generally ended up accepting just about what management had offered in the first place (average increase: 5% an hour). The average weekly wage rose about 6% during the year to about $54.65 (see chart...