Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire troublemaking union men. And with union chairmen handling shop discipline, foremen were free to supervise actual production. The company now has only one foreman for each 100 workers (v. one for 20 workers before unionization). Thanks to war orders - and lately expansion into new products - the dollar volume per worker (1,600) has tripled. The gross will be about $12,000,000 this year, v. $2,500,000 prewar...
...must newspapers insist that everything bad comes from Wyoming? When Wyoming has a snowstorm, Colorado papers call it a blizzard, and if Colorado has the same kind of a storm it is called a million-dollar snowstorm...
There was no denying that the rise in living costs had outstripped the rise in wages in the past six months. But industry, which prefers to take the long view, pointed out that since 1939 the cost of living has risen 54%, while dollar earnings have risen 93%-a 25% rise in real wages. To people on more or less fixed incomes-a large segment of U.S. society not in organized labor's camp-this point was important, not to say poignant...
Ready for distribution at the beginning of next term, the six dollar album will be available through the Band's representatives in the Houses, and through mail orders to the Band at Paine Hall...
...return to his community to become an informed and useful citizen. In an Army still fumbling with the recommendations of the Doolittle Board and with reformation of the courts-martial system, I & E stands out as a happy experiment. There are much better ways to save the taxpayer's dollar...