Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light of India's needs, these goals were none too ambitious. If every development scheme now on the drawing board could be carried out, the Indian peasant would still be eating 500 fewer calories a day than the average American...
...Young, he was responsible for some of the most far-reaching labor policies in American industry, put into operation (after the 1929 crash) an unemployment insurance plan for 100,000 employees (before the days of social security). In 1931 he presented his famed "Swope Plan" for stabilizing industry, a scheme for a national organization of modified cartels in which competition would be limited, overproduction governed, workers and investors vigorously protected, and responsibility for unemployment put on the shoulders of industry. Swope retired in favor of Charles E. ("Electric Charlie") Wilson in 1939, and was named chairman of the New York...
...started selling salvation." Salvation, it seems, did not bring high enough returns so he started on Bibles and "by 1947 he was netting $10,000 a year on Bibles--sold on the installment plans." Today, it is up over $75,000. Kash dabbles also in a mortgaging scheme which "saves him up to 90 per cent on current taxes...
...grandiose scheme to develop for heavy industry 39 acres of land lying under the Charles River passed its second test in the Cambridge City Council yesterday...
Hypnotized salesmen insist the scheme works. Starting out with two slumping salesmen at the agency where he worked, Mikesell experimented on them "whenever we had time between deals." Suddenly both men went on hot selling streaks, and the agency promptly sent 13 of its 22 salesmen in for the same treatment. Result, according to the agency: eight of the 13 are doing 100% better, two are much better, one a little better, only two showed no improvement. Says one man, who grumpily treated every customer as a "tire kicker," someone who is just killing time: "Now I treat every customer...