Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production. "Let us reduce that to plain English. You can cheapen the costs of industrial production by two methods. One is by the development of new machinery and new technique and by increasing employe efficiency. We do not discourage that. But do not dodge the fact that this means fewer men employed and more men unemployed. The other way to reduce the costs of industrial production is to establish longer hours for the same pay or to reduce the pay for the same number of hours. If you lengthen hours you will need fewer workers. More men out of work...
...manufacture does not mean more purchasing power and more goods consumed. It means just the opposite. ... If you increase buying power, prices will go up but more goods will be bought. . . . Higher wages for workers, more income for farmers means more goods produced, more and better food eaten, fewer unemployed and lower taxes...
...defenders of our liberties meet to take stock of the state of their organization, all considerations of the twin menace of Russia and pacifism are overshadowed by a genuine American tragedy: the membership of the D. A. R. has slid downhill like a 1929 ticker tape, with 25,000 fewer on the rolls than eight years...
...fact that improved offensive weapons will leave fewer veterans to lobby after the next war will be introduced as an argument for immediate action. As for the economic desirability of the proposal, Robert M. Coquillette '39 will discuss "The Bonus and Recovery...
...Bock also stated, drawing facts from the available statistics on the subject, that Freshman waiters for the last three years have done better scholastically than other Freshmen with the same admission averages, and that the percentage of failures were fewer. It is a well known fact that men who have a steady job or outside activity, such as managerial work, literary competitions, or even national youth movements, do much better on the average than those who merely eat and sleep their way through Harvard...