Word: big
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Effects Go On. For the nation's big steel users, the prospect is for still more layoffs in the next six weeks. More than 410,000 workers outside the steel industry have been furloughed because of the strike; the Department of Labor reports that the layoffs will continue at an accelerating rate as steel supplies are exhausted. Both the number and size of the shutdown plants are increasing...
Labor Force. In employment, the C.E.D. found that for 30 years there has been a remarkably uniform 1.3% increase in the labor force year after year, with the only big bulge above the trend line in World War II due to the influx of the old, the young, and married women...
...style self-service markets opened in Europe a few years ago, "la méthode américaine" has sparked a revolution in food retailing. The familiar cubbyhole specialty store, with its high prices and limited stock, is on the way out. Rising to replace it is the big, flashy market that offers customers everything from plastic-packaged carrots to caviar, silk stockings and camping equipment, and all at prices 10% to 20% below the old-fashioned competition...
...floor space (v. 10,000 for the average U.S. super), stock only an average of 1,000 to 2,000 items (v. 5,600 in U.S. markets). Some stores still do not sell frozen foods, leave the meat to the outside butcher; only a few are big enough to produce their own brands of canned goods. But they all have one thing in common with U.S. markets: high-volume, low-markup operations, which give customers more for their money and the operators more profit...
Serve Yourself. In France there are close to 3,000 new self-service grocery stores doing so much business that retailers speak of a "commercial revolution." Many of the stores are independently owned and operated, but the biggest push comes from the chains. France's big Félix Potin chain has already turned half of its 96 stores into self-service markets, plans to convert all its stores to self-service by 1961, reports that sales automatically double when customers realize that they can shop faster, more easily and more cheaply at self-service. Two years ago, Paris...