Word: weres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In spite of President Nixon's tireless warnings that businessmen who bet on persistent inflation are bound to lose, the bets are still being placed. Wholesale commodity prices continued to rise at an estimated 4.8% annual rate in November. The index will almost certainly move up again this month...
The A.F.L.-C.I.O. has supported so many boycotts by member unions against employers that last summer President George Meany made a little joke about it. A loyal unionist's ultimate treason, he said, would be to eat grapes while flying over West Virginia in a National Airlines plane burning...
In the middle of this week, the U.S. could face the worst labor trouble of the year: a strike by 15 shop unions against the major railroads. The indications last week were that a settlement would be reached in time to prevent the walkout. If the strike occurs, however, President...
Beyer's pop psych is apparently remarkably effective. Pennsylvania Life Insurance has been spectacularly successful. Since 1960, it has increased its assets by 800%, to $48 million in 1968, and its life insurance in force by 11,600%. In 1968, its "gains from operations," the insurance industry's...
At the next stage dozens of donors were waiting to be screened by four or five nurses. There was no line. Instead, people just sat spaced out in two long rows until they felt they had really waited their turn. I did some light reading and struck up a conversation...