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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm jobs have defeated mechanization. Peanuts and sugar cane are now mechanically harvested; there is even a machine to pull, top and load sugar beets. Some 60% of the plow market has shifted from two-bottom to three-bottom plows, which plow three furrows at a clip. Before World War II, a two-row cultivator was considered big; now the large size is four-row. One enterprising Iowa farmer has even welded together enough equipment to make himself an eight-row planter, thus spanning twelve acres an hour at 4 m.p.h. International Harvester has a new Electrall tractor with...
Salt Lake City Tribune: Ford may be able to carry the increased load. But what of the smaller companies? A guaranteed annual wage could easily "guarantee" them right out of business. Labor must give more consideration to ownership. Profits are not guaranteed and, short of socialism, never will be. If there are no profits there will be no wages, guaranteed or otherwise...
...sound, even for the auto industry, remains to be seen. Will it work in bad times? Can it work in various other industries? How about coal, for example-already sick, and harried by high wage rates and competition with oil? Can seasonal businesses or industries carry the GAW load? What if public taste veers away from goods produced by some outfit which has a GAW setup? Then, too, there is the fear, expressed by many who doubt the feasibility of GAW, that it will operate chiefly to impel employers to hire as few workers as they can. Certainly guaranteed annual...
...million taxpayers in the under $5,000 category. Such a healthy, strong and disgustingly carefree American I have never seen portrayed-in relation to taxpaying, that is. And such an oppressed, burdened and overweary Atlas was the 1.8 million group sharing the $10.2 billion load...
...system's manpower so that there are rarely more than forty workers in the main building at any one time. These offices, located in the Medical School, the Business School, and in the basement of Walter Hastings Hall, have repair shops of their own, and take most of the load off the central plant's facilities in their respective areas, besides serving as base points for the buildings and grounds maintenance crews...