Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from a mere machine." However, he says, "in all too many American corporations, management may be aware of this but, for some inexplicable reasons, devotes more concern to the machine than the man. It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...
...test by Tom Hopkinson, free-lance writer, novelist and onetime editor (TIME, Sept. 15, 1952). At the request of Herbert Gunn, 50, editor of Lord Rothermere's racy tabloid Daily Sketch (circ. 804,541), Hopkinson reviewed Front Page Story, a British movie melodrama with a Fleet Street background. After sending his review to the Sketch, Hopkinson was called by a subeditor and asked if one word might be taken out of the review. "What word?" asked Hopkinson. "You say, 'It's not a great picture,' " answered the subeditor. "Would you mind leaving out the word...
Present Government subsidies, said Murray, make up the "construction differential," i.e., the difference between the cost of shipbuilding at home and abroad. But even with this aid, few shippers can afford the required down payment of 25% on new vessels. Foreign competition has grown so large that the U.S. fleet in operation represents only 10% of the world's merchant ships. Operating costs are also high. An American freighter with a 51-man crew has a monthly payroll of $20,800 v. $4,700 for a British crew...
Merchant ships become obsolete after 20 years, Murray reminded the Senators. Since most of the U.S. fleet was built during World War II, keels must be laid at the rate of 60 a year to prevent the merchant fleet from losing 81% of its ships between...
...India, $7,500,000, to finance the world's biggest fleet of heavy tractors. By plowing under the tough kans grass that has overrun millions of acres, the tractors will bring land back into cultivation. Within two years, India expects to have 1,500,000 more acres of farmland, enough to produce $35 million a year in wheat...