Word: towards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discussing the order and amendment, several councilors spoke at length on their views toward Harvard expansion. Supporting the order, Councilor Mrs. Pearl K. Wise proposed a five-point program for bettering the University's relations with the city...
...contract. In Congress the oaths are gathering enemies. Three bills to repeal them were introduced in the House. And in the Senate, Massachusetts' John Kennedy, who co-sponsored a repeal bill with Pennsylvania's Joseph Clark, called Mundt's anti-Communist mousetrap "an unnecessary, futile gesture toward the memory of an earlier...
...Cannon move was adroitly timed to yank a rug from beneath the A.F.L.C.I.O. Textile Workers Union of America, which opens its convention in Charlotte, N.C. this week. The T.W.U.A. has never made much progress in organizing Cannon Mills. At Kannapolis, N.C., the company headquarters, where Cannon contributes heavily toward police, churches, golf course, etc., the union has lately been distributing leaflets pointing out that Southern textile wages, averaging $1.43 an hour, are substantially below the $2.17 average for all U.S. manufacturing. Nationally, the textile industry pays the lowest wages of any basic industry...
From such facts Martin and other experts argue that the best way to expand is to improve the economic climate, so that businessmen will have the incentive to accomplish greater growth themselves. They want to work toward a balanced budget, not merely for the symmetrical sake of balance itself, but in order to cut taxes as an encouragement to both business and consumers. Even the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Ruttenberg admits that tax cuts "worked" when the Administration chopped taxes $7.5 billion in 1954: the next year's growth was 8%. How to cut taxes and still maintain vitally...
...expanded T.W.A.'s routes, cajoled Howard Hughes into buying control of T.W.A. and pouring his millions into expanding the routes still farther. To do it, Frye and Hughes worked with Lockheed to develop the Constellation, electrified the air world toward the end of World War II by piloting a Connie across the U.S. in a record 6 hrs. 58 min. and from New York to Paris in 14 hrs. 12 min. With the new Connies in 1946, T.W.A. won air routes to Europe, Africa and Asia, rightly changed its name to Trans World Airlines. (Frye also enlivened the society...