Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that such increases would goad the management into more efficient methods of production, but it is unlikely that where the depression has failed to do this, higher wages could. In other industries or firms where large profits still exist, laborers may be able to take a larger cut from gross income. But a general increase in wage-rates, to repeat, like a rise in the price of anything else, merely means less demand for it, which in this case means more unemployment...
Depression brought a bad setback to mechanization. In the first place, the farmers' gross income dropped from about twelve billion dollars in 1929 to about five billion dollars in 1932. In the second place, falling prices on farm products made mechanical farming uneconomic. With wheat at $1 per bu., the tractor-farmer should make twice as much money as the horse-farmer. With wheat at 40 ? per bu., the horse-farmer may make a little but the tractor-farmer will lose...
...farmers' gross income rose to $6,000,000,000 and to $7.300,000.000 in 1934. This year it should be in the neighborhood of $8,000,000,000. So the tractor again comes lumbering over the farm horizon. There are no current figures on the truck and tractor population, but horses have dropped to 16,600,000. Sales of farm implements have risen even more sharply than the rise in farm income. From a 1932 low of some $150,000,000 they have more than doubled, until domestic sales for the present year are estimated...
...last year, and in the U. S. alone, they got 75,500 new customers for electricity, 17,900 new customers for gas. For the week ending Sept. 26, 1935, an electric output of 215,000,000 kilowatt hours marked an all-time peak for the system. Domestic gross...
...navy of all time. Never before in modern history has the Admiralty been faced with a situation comparable to that now on its hands. For the first time the power of the British navy is definitely in question. The Mediterranean fleet is far superior to the Italian force in gross tonnage, but the Fascist ships are in an extremely strong position and are vastly more mobile...