Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sociologist. He had opinions about labor. In 1914, the country was flabbergasted when he established an unheard-of minimum $5-a-day wage and a profit-sharing scheme. Good pay makes good workers, he said. Well-paid workers could buy more cars. So many thousands stormed his gates for jobs that Ford officials had fire hoses turned on them. But there were moral strings attached to the profit-sharing. He appointed the dean of St. Paul's to see that the money went into wholesome food, Ford cars, etc.-not into liquor and riotous living...
...This scheme still has a horrid ring to free-enterprising airmen. But some of those who had been fighting the Chosen Instrument a few years ago have privately come around to Patterson's and Trippe's way of thinking. There have not been enough converts to cause a significant shift in thinking about U.S. air policy. But Pat Patterson is sure that the U.S. will soon have to face the hard fact that, in an international air world peopled by monopolistic Chosen Instruments, the U.S. will have to use the same kind of weapon...
...work in all the physical science fields offers many more hours of student contact per week than it would be feasible to provide under a tutorial system, you can see why it appears unlikely that we will move in the direction of superimposing a tutorial system upon the present scheme of things...
Home Planners does no building itself. But it estimates that the cost is from $8,000 to $18,000, depending on the location. The scheme has caught on so fast that a fortnight ago Sears Roebuck ordered $250,000 worth of books, models and prints. By year's end, Home Planners expects to sell a million dollars' worth...
Larger more convenient accommodations in the Austrian castle of Leopold-skron, and the first definite lineup of a faculty for the 80 or more European students who will study American civilization at Salzburg this summer were announced last night by the Student Council as the scheme now ceases to be a project and becomes an assured reality...