Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year.) One prime reason: worker efficiency is way down. In 1941 G.M., with 265,000 workers, turned out 55,000 cars a week; now, with 20% more workers, it is making only 25,460. Said Wilson: worker efficiency* was only 80% of its prewar level because of inexperience and workers who 1) feel that they don't have to work so hard any more; 2) fear that with materials shortages they will work themselves...
Stripped of his pink sport shirt and shaded by a white pith helmet, he nevertheless found fishing a good way to sit and loaf. Loafing was his chief objective and he got a lot of it done. He kept his weight level by frequent swims off the fantail of his yacht Williamsburg (he uses a side stroke to keep his glasses dry). And he managed to do almost no work. He signed a few documents, put off until this week everything that required anything more than his signature...
...productive machine, long clogged by strikes and crippling shortages, was finally running in high gear. Last week Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small cheerily reported: "stop-&-go output" has been replaced by "continuous, high-level production." The pipelines would soon be full and, "if industrial peace continues, an enormous amount of consumers goods would soon pour...
...Middle Level. Chemical-fueled rockets, V-2 and its relatives, will fill the second stage of preparation for war. Thanks to the Germans, they are already effective weapons-in-being, known in Russia and Britain as well as in the U.S. If war were to start in five years, improved V2s with atomic warheads might be the dominant weapons...
...already spoken in favor of the 50-50 idea, the poison would be deadly: her airlines are still fledglings. While U.S. aviation looked on apprehensively, the State Department was trying to ease the tension. Hand-picked missionaries have left or are about to leave to do some top level, pre-treaty softening-up in China, India, Brazil (Newfoundland, New Zealand, and Australia have all but signed). Off to India-with the rank of minister-will go able George Brownell, ex-brigadier general and wartime assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War for Air. Off to Brazil last week went James...