Word: slices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cabin cruisers. U-Mak-It Products, which had 15 models on show, also puts out a kit for a 23-ft. cabin cruiser (see cut} for $844 without motor, a saving of about $1,000 on the readymade model. Depending on the size, a home builder could slice as much as 60% from the price of a factory-made boat...
...this inadequacy the University should extend Economics 126 to a full year--split into two half courses. The first term could remain much like the present course, with the second term devoted to discussion of the subject's more subtle particulars. An extension would not carve much of a slice from the Economics Department's budget, yet it would provide an important aid for students trying to meet the burden of graduate school courses and personnel office requirements...
...Gift of the week: $3,950,000 left to educational, cultural and civic organizations by Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, widow of the late J. P. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lament, longtime board chairman of Morgan's banking house. Largest slice of the bequest ($2,950,000) went to women's colleges because "women's education is just as important for our country as men's education." Items: to Smith College, $1,200,000 as a "token of my special indebtedness for four happy and stimulating years there"; to Barnard College, $500,000 for being...
Business and labor alike evolved a new philosophy: each could gain a bigger slice of a bigger pie by more intelligent cooperation. Labor, which once fought technological change, came to see that improved machinery raised real wages by raising man-hour output and lowering costs and prices. Industry, which once fought unionization, came to see that unions themselves could help boost productivity, and that good morale among work...
Business and labor alike evolved a new philosophy: each could gain a bigger slice of a bigger pie by more intelligent cooperation. Labor, which once fought technological change, came to see that im proved machinery raised real wages by raising man-hour output and lowering costs and prices. Industry, which once fought unionization, came to see that un ions themselves could help boost productivity, and that good morale among work ers could release great untapped energies. This new philosophy reached its most dramatic fruition in a revolutionary contract which General Motors' President Charlie Wilson made with the United Auto...