Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year the Amherst tennis team gave the Crimson a scare before losing 5-4. This year, however, the Crimson is stronger, the Lord Jeffs are weaker, and Harvard's margin of victory should be bigger when the teams meet at Harvard today...
...years after 15 years' service. In Detroit, Walter Reuther has already pressed the automakers to start studying his requests for greater job security in next year's contract. Stymied in its drive for a 35-hour, share-the-work week, labor has turned its efforts to winning bigger and better fringe benefits...
...Lines. Most European businesses began in family secrecy, and as they grew bigger still kept a family attitude toward such outsiders as shareholders and the public. Especially in France and Italy, fear of the tax collector is so obsessive that businessmen avoid even being photographed lest they come to the collector's notice. There is also a belief that dis closure of profits only encourages unions to ask for more money. Officers of European firms make themselves and their plants as inaccessible as possible. France's tiremaking Michelin, perhaps the world's most secretive company, boasts that...
...Department: new types of machinery, higher-yielding varieties of plants, improved breeds of livestock, more effective pest control, greater use of chemical fertilizers, more efficient methods of handling and storing crops. But the revolution has also partly resulted from shifts in the structure of farming in the U.S.-toward bigger farms with far greater capital investment. Since 1940, average investment per farm in the U.S. has increased eightfold, from $6,000 to $48,000. As a result of the combined workings of science and investment, it takes only 15 man-hours of labor to produce 100 bushels of corn...
Created during the Great Depression, the support-control system is much the same as it was in the New Deal days, only bigger and more complicated. In its current operations, the Agriculture Department uses a device called "crop loans" to support prices of wheat, cotton, rice, tobacco, peanuts, corn, oats, rye, barley, and a few other storable crops. Within certain restrictions, a farmer has a right to place all or part of his crop in certified storage and get a Commodity Credit Corp. loan on it at the support price. Later the farmer may repay the loan, reclaim his crop...