Word: complains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers for underplanting their acres, thus depriving them of $700 million in payments made this year. On the other hand, the Government will have to pay more in price supports in the months ahead to compensate for the surge in crop production. Yet despite the fact that farmers complain about the prices they get for their crops, reported the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago last week, the value of the farms they own has soared; in some places it has doubled in value over ten years ago. Not only that, but many farmers are buying more and more land...
While union leaders in Texas complain that the law has hurt them, they are hard put to find figures to prove it. Ed Burris, executive vice president of the Texas Manufacturers Association, cites union membership, which has grown from 110,500 before World War II to 400.000 today. He feels that the law has not inhibited the growth of unions or their functions as bargaining agents. Unionists charge that the law has had other bad effects. Jerry Holleman, head of the Texas A.F.L.-C.I.O., says the law has weakened union discipline, causing more wildcat strikes, and that the union must...
Rather, he passed day after day of unimpaired bliss, blithely assured that even if all was not well he at least walked in the sunlight. He didn't complain when his bus was late, when it poured on his way to Longfellow, or when he was trapped in Filene's revolving door. And the time his date's heel caught and broke in a streetcar track he cheerfully carried her home. He enjoyed House food, loved breakfasts at 8:15, and even liked the Lowell House bells. He read Thurber, collected Charles Addams, and was content to sit alone...
Industry's own production experts complain that they operate less efficiently with so many models. Says Mrs. Florence B. Anderson, design and feature coordinator for Norge: "Multiplicity means more down time for your dies, and more short production runs-and this can be very expensive...
...complain most loudly about the wide variety of products are the retailers. Most dealers agree that business would be better if there were fewer models to handle, find that most customers tend to concentrate on a few popular models anyway. "I feel that multiplicity affects profit," says Edward R. Taylor, Motorola executive vice president of consumer products. "It shortens the margins for the wholesaler and retailer." Says Buick General Manager Edward T. Ragsdale: "We reduced our models to make it simpler for our dealers to keep an adequate inventory on hand...