Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double vocations he follows, Manning makes no secret of his preference. "I abhor the word politician," he said last week. "I am not here by choice. I would much rather concentrate on my Bible work...
...population would be 175 million; 2) the same proportion of the population would be working then as now; 3) the average amount a worker produces in an hour will continue to rise, at the 2%-per-year rate as it has for several generations; 4) the average work week will be cut by onefourth. Most important of these assumptions is No. 3. If more and better machinery, and more and better industrial organization continues to raise productivity at the old rate, 1980's worker will be able to turn out 88.4% more in an hour than the worker...
More important, "A nation on a 30 hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts, from gardening to painting and writing, than any people has ever possessed. Surely the chance is good that the arts will flourish in the U.S. as never before in the history of the world...
...Last week some indignant citizens of New York saw an Orwellian shadow in Grand Central Terminal broadcasts which they could not turn off (See NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Industrial Engineer Harold G. Matthews, owner of the yacht Almar II on which New York's Mayor William O'Dwyer, 59, and the former Sloan Simpson, 33, were honeymooning last week, advanced one theory as to why the Irish-born onetime city cop fell in love with the Texas-born onetime model: "She not only is a charming girl, but she makes a wonderful, mulligan stew...