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More Restraint. The consumer should buy "only what you cannot do without." The housewife "must put off buying whenever she can." The businessman must "hold your prices down." The wage earner must not "ask for wage increases beyond what is needed to meet the rise in the cost of living." Everyone should save as much as he can "out of current income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Everybody's Fight | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...Skinner also exploited pigeons. By subtle and gradual application of the "stretch-out," he forced one pigeon to peck 35,000 times in a five-hour period for only one-third of an ounce of food. "This," explains Professor Skinner, "is similar to offering an incentive to a wage earner. A high output can be obtained with very little pay if the schedule of payoff is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pigeons & People | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...many new businesses it has created. Said he: "Today [compared to 33 years ago] fewer companies make the steel, but 12,000 more establishments are able to fabricate it. For every steelmaking company that has disappeared, 60 new metal-fabricating plants have been successfully established. And for every wage earner who had a job in the industry thirty-three years ago, three are employed today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warmup | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...fortnight ago, Abraham Lincoln's rugged face looked out, seeming to endorse the ten aphorisms printed alongside his picture. Look thought "it's about time for the country to remember" such Lincolnian sayings as "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift," "You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer," and "You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dishonest Abe | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...cost of 2? apiece). "It's just as hard to get into this book if you don't qualify," he said, "as it is to get out if you do." Blomberg himself was listed at $7,000 per annum, well below Stockholm's No. 1 earner, Banker Jacob Wallenberg ($170,000), but close to Prime Minister Tage Erlander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Taxpayers' Tatler | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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