Word: trends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Times' study also said that the educators are worried about the "trend" of draft boards toward drafting graduate students...
PARKER Pen Co., last big holdout against ballpoint pens, will finally bow to the trend. After nine years of experiment, it will bring out its first ballpoint this week, for $2.75. The company claims it will give 60 hours of writing (v. 14 for most other pens) without replacing the cartridge...
...climinates the security of tenure, the knowledge that promotion comes through merit and dismissal comes only when deserved. Because salaries are low, security is one of the few attractions of government service. Without it, fewer able men will choose Federal employment instead of higher paying private jobs. Such a trend is illustrated by a recent decline of over 50 percent in the number of students taking the Junior Management Assistantship examinations...
...throughout the economy, builders complained about the new shortage of mortgage money, retailers warned darkly of a sales slump if the hard money policy continued, the stock market jiggled to a year's low of 255, thus pushing dividend yields up to 5.8%, in line with the rising trend of Government bond interest (see chart). George Humphrey did not need to be told what to do; he cut the interest rate on his next issue, while the Federal Reserve Board reduced bank reserve requirements to make more credit available...
...England, whose Yankee pride and pocketbook have been hurt of late by the southward migration of the textile industry, could boast of checking its downward economic trend. While 21,000 textile jobs in the area disappeared during the year, more than that number opened up in such new fields as electronics and light metals.Typical of New England's Yankee ingenuity in creating new jobs was the feat performed by the little town of Harmony, Me. Its 700 harmonious citizens contributed $22,000 to pay one-third the cost of a new shoe factory which will employ 120 people...