Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such plans is that of meat-packing George A. Hormel Co. of Austin, Minn. Started experimentally in 1931, it now covers some 8,000 employees. Milwaukee's Nunn-Bush Shoe Co. began its famed "Share-the-Production" flexible annual-wage plan in 1935, has continued it, with slight modifications, ever since. Biggest and oldest of all plans is Procter & Gamble's. Begun in 1923, it guarantees each worker with a two-year service record 48 weeks of employment a year, and now covers 85% of all P. & G.'s hourly-wage employees...
...theater ("I knew all the tricks, I knew every plot"). Turned Socialist-minded by the Depression, he quit the Express to try his hand at politics in the Laborite Herald. But his new column, like the old, was mainly about Swaffer's likes & dislikes: the change was so slight that actors hardly realized he had "stopped" being a critic. The column's I-studded name-dropping led one magazine to run a contest on how Swaffer would start his column if Press Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere were killed simultaneously in an accident. The winning lead...
...Lili. A slight but charming cinemusical about an orphan girl, a young magician and a romantic puppeteer; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...
Chapin anticipated a slight increase, perhaps 20, in the number of men returning from military service or business to enter the second year class. This class now numbers 540 men, somewhat below the normal enrollment of about 560. Only men who completed the first year at the Business School can enter the second year class...
...Eliot is surprised that this slight Greek scholar should be a rabid sports enthusiast. In fact, no one in the House would be surprised at anything about Finley. He is a remarkable man, they agree, with sweeping interests, an unpredictable nature, and a character marked by both poetry and precision...