Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owen D. Young, board chairman of the General Electric Co., a vast open-shop organization, did not speak in person. President Green quoted him; quoted from a speech Mr. Young once made at Harvard, when Mr. Young said: "Slowly we are learning that low wages for labor do not mean high profits for capital. What we need to know is the limits within which men may work with zest, spirit and pride of accomplishment." Just as Mr. Young's speech had originally startled old-fashioned employers, by its proximity to Labor doctrine, so did the quotation of Mr. Young...
This year T. P. ("Tay Pay") O'Connor, 79, M. P. and a veteran of Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide...
...furiously on, spoke M. Briand. For half an hour he conversed at breakneck speed in a low tone. Dr. Stresemann, his face masked in passivity, sat grimly silent. M. Briand was alleged to have discussed with him European policy anent Soviet Russia, the question of War guilt and, according to the onlookers, Dr. Stresemann appeared to agree with everything the French foreign minister said, but held his counsel, except to agree for the time being to drop the question of who started the War. Busybodies were mystified...
...take business away from any automobile manufacturer. Our thought has always been that the automobile business is prosperous only when all the makers of good cars are busy." But Chevrolet motors, manufactured under the direction of a onetime Ford executive, William Knudsen, have been hitting near enough to the low-priced market for automobiles to demolish almost half the target aimed at by the Ford Motors Co. In 1924 Ford scored 2,083,545 sales to Chevrolet's 587,341. By 1926 that score was changed to read Ford, 1,810,000; Chevrolet, 1,234,850. This year...
This fashion of making bricks has great wastage. In the kiln heat a great portion of the bricks warp and curl. Some can be sold for seconds and used in the hidden supporting walls of low grade apartment houses. Most, however, must be crushed and used as road-making filler...