Word: behinders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the good news behind last week's report from the President's Council of Economic Advisers that U.S. economic activity in the second quarter climbed to a record yearly rate of $483.5 billion. Even the Government's economists were surprised at the rise of $13.3 billion from the last quarter, $49 billion up from a year ago. They had hoped that the U.S. economy would show enough strength to reach the $500 billion mark by mid-1960. But the economy has snapped back from the recession-and hurtled on-faster than the most glowing optimists...
...labor's answer to oldtime management abuses such as the speedup, spread far and wide during World War II's crash production and cost-plus contracts. It is by no means an American phenomenon; featherbedding pervades many segments of labor in foreign countries, is often disguised behind the Iron Curtain to create the illusion of full employment...
...work, can only complain that a ten-man hearth crew does the work of seven men, that in one plant five crews are employed to move steel where four could do the job. Featherbedding has helped to break whole firms: automakers now contend that it was a major factor behind the demise of Packard, Hudson and Kaiser cars. The United Auto Workers often insist that several types of skilled workers-machinists, oilers, carpenters, metal handlers-work on a single job that management says could be handled...
...found last week in all of Red China. The traders who came and went with revolving-door regularity only a few months ago, crying the benefits of trade with the Chinese Communists, have returned disillusioned to Germany, Italy, Great Britain, France, Canada. What soured them on doing business behind the Bamboo Curtain was no political change of heart, but the best reason a businessman can have: unbusinesslike methods of doing business, developed by the Chinese into an exasperating art. Snapped a British trader: "Why go? It's a damned waste of time...
Wild Strawberries (Swedish). For art-movie fans, the Bergman to reckon with is not Ingrid but Ingmar, a prolific writerdirector; in this haunting movie, he explores the spiritually empty space behind the busy life of an eminent old doctor...