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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Labor Force. In employment, the C.E.D. found that for 30 years there has been a remarkably uniform 1.3% increase in the labor force year after year, with the only big bulge above the trend line in World War II due to the influx of the old, the young, and married women...
...productivity of labor lest it get tangled in the argument between labor and management as to whether the gain was due to harder work or more capital and machines. C.E.D., venturing in, divided the real G.N.P. by the total production force, computed a 1929-57 productivity trend line showing an average 1.6% rise. The difference between a 1.3% labor-force rise and a 1.6% productivity rise, said C.E.D., produced "well over half of the growth in production in recent decades." In 1959 output per man is 60% greater than in 1929 despite shorter hours...
Prices. Charting the course of inflation, the C.E.D. took goods and services price indexes and converted them into 1954 prices all the way back to 1909. When plotted out, the trend line showed prices overall have gone up by 2.5% a year. Despite all the worry over price increases in the 1950s, the increase in this decade just about matched the rise from 1910 up to the outbreak of World...
...week, Revson dons a white coat and roams through the company's laboratories, where Revlon this year is spending $1.1 million on research, more than any other cosmetics firm. His eye is so sharp that he can pick out the one imperfect lipstick on an assembly line of hundreds, his standards so high that he has been known to throw away $1,000,000 worth of lipstick because its shade was just a little...
...those for-the-man-who-has-everything presents. Into the Wall Street Journal went a straight-faced Tiffany ad illustrating a golf putter with a head of 14-karat gold. Price: $1,475. At the bottom of the ad, in the best Wall Street tradition, Tiffany added a line similar to those that appear on security-offering notices: "This advertisement appears for the record only, as the entire stock has been sold...