Word: trend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manufacturers has listed seven other companies in which similar annual plans were in effect last year.* But the guaranteed-wage idea got its biggest boost when General Motors adopted it last fall (TIME, Nov. 21). Last week it looked as if guaranteeing wages might become a major business trend for 1939† three more concerns jumped aboard the bandwagon and Jay Hormel announced a new scheme...
...enough of U. S. industry followed this trend, it might effectively level the peaks and valleys in public buying power and also, therefore, in industrial production. This would help prevent any inventory gluts such as brought on Depression...
Nothing this trend in his annual report last year, Dean Handford said, "This exchange of men between the College and secondary schools is of mutual benefit to both institutions and should be encouraged so far as practicable...
Unfortunately they would be likely to laugh at the asking. Of course, they have their troubles. They, like doctors, are paid last, and of late there has been a discouraging trend toward one student taking a review and then passing on his tidbits to his brothers in distress. But, all in all, certain maestros of the schools have been able to hold their heads above water and to keep undesirable animals from the door, and they naturally show no signs of giving up. And so, the bout goes...
Enough to alarm the woman-wary is the contemporary trend to novels and memoirs by writers' wives and mistresses. Few years ago Arnold Bennett's mistress, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, and his wife, Marguerite, published their intimate memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...