Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What becomes of all of the people when we expect government to pay out more if taxable profits are squeezed? Who gets any advantage if goods are not produced faster than wages are advanced and money printed? We cannot call this holding the line or just a bulge. To make the take-home worth while, more things at lower prices must be produced. That is up to labor more than management. Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others. Each one will receive more money but have...
Like most other businessmen, animal dealers had been squeezed by costs that rose faster than retail prices. And still zoos thought that they were being overcharged. Not long ago Chicago's Brookfield Zoo reluctantly agreed to pay $4,000 each for three giraffes (prewar price: $1,700 and up). Growled Brookfield's director: "OPA hasn't anything to say about giraffes...
Even the Japs had some better weapons than the U.S. In Tokyo last week, the Navy's Captain Allan L. Dunning reported that a Jap torpedo was superior to any developed by the U.S. or Britain. It carried more explosive farther and faster, and it left no telltale bubble trail...
...system, far more elaborate, will do much more. It will guide the pilot down a glide path directly to the runway. At intervals, radio markers will tell him his position upon it. The new system will not only be safer but faster, reducing the tedious and dangerous "stacking up" which often clogs busy airports...
...reimburse them for the high cost of ships purchased during the war. From the vast U.S. merchant fleet of 40,080,000 tons, 61% of all the ships in the world, the U.S. Maritime Commission will put on the block 2,000 or more slow Liberty ships, about 400 faster Victory ships and C-type cargo liners, and about 550 speedy tankers. Selling very many of these will not be easy...