Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...print in the contract-seniority rights, job assignments, paid washup time, added protective clothing. The primary sticking point was overtime schedules; the union demanded that they be equalized and that workers not getting their fair share of overtime during a certain period should be paid the equivalent amount in cash even if they had not worked any overtime. Ford would have none of this, and the strike was on. It immediately cut Ford's passenger car production by 16% , its truck output by 34%. Its continuance not only would threaten the industry's fond hopes...
...best when he is simply reporting what he saw. Assigned by Izvestia to cover the Spanish Civil War, he is sharp, biting, witty. He describes how the Anarchists, numbering in the tens of thousands, caused havoc in Republican ranks. Not believing in law, order or discipline, they confiscated all cash in areas they controlled, cut off all medical supplies on the grounds that "nature is a better healer." Ehrenburg showed them Soviet films on proper revolutionary behavior, but the Anarchists laughed in all the wrong places...
...list could go on, through some 54 federally aided urban renewal projects that Philadelphia has completed or has in the works, plus 21 others that did not involve direct federal cash...
Computers now analyze the sales potential of new products, schedule complex production runs, and solve design problems. Before making investment decisions, many bankers and brokers consult Standard & Poor's Compustat system, whose computer has standardized and "memorized" 30 financial details about 625 corporations, including sales, cash flow and price/earnings ratio of stocks. A New Jersey builder recently relied on a computer to choose the house plans, prices and financing arrangements for a large suburban project. Even Kentucky horse breeders depend on a computer, primed with race results and the physical characteristics of 200,000 thoroughbreds, to serve...
Britain wears a deceptive look of prosperity. Cash registers are ringing merrily in the nation of shopkeepers, and consumer credit is on the rise. Less than 2% of the work force is unemployed. Construction is booming...