Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that, on the basis of early estimates, the productivity gain in 1950 was 6%, the biggest rise since the war. This not only meant that workers were producing more efficiently, but that the U.S. was reaping the benefits from industry's huge postwar expenditure on new, improved plants and equipment...
Every real gain in the U.S. standard of living comes from greater productivity-the ability of each U.S. worker to boost his man-hour output of goods. Normally, the U.S. manages to achieve a yearly gain of 2% in productivity...
Many industries far outstripped the average gain. Of 26 industries sampled by BLS, nine (including lead, zinc and copper mining, the synthetic fiber industry) showed a rise in man-hour output of 10% or more. Productivity in the anthracite coal industry was off 4%, but for all the mining industry, it was up 6%, equal to the total rise scored during the eleven preceding year's. Manufacturers' productivity rose 8%, compared with the normal...
...Turkey did . . . Such an association would guarantee our safety, liberty and independence and would also secure a just settlement of our pending questions, and that of Palestine in particular . . . Neutrality is impossible ... At the present critical moment neutrality is considered by the Western bloc as animosity, and if we gain the animosity of the Western bloc, it may drive that bloc to continue to hurt us. If, at the moment of need, we take a neutral stand and leave the burden of defending the Middle East to Turkey and Israel, we should not be astonished if the West should recompense...
Mauriac has written seven novels since then. In most of them the characters win their way to painful knowledge of themselves, gain glimmerings of the love of God. In most, Mauriac writes with surgical brilliance. But only one (Vipers' Tangle-TIME, Nov. 3, 1947) rates with the best work of his unregenerate days: Therese (1927) and The Desert of Love...