Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Workers have not been the only beneficiaries of the pre-year plan. The rate of layoff and return have been reduced 25%. Fewer men have quit, fewer have been fired (layoffs do not count as discharges). For manufacturers this lower rate of labor turnover makes for more efficient operation, fewer accidents. Although the dealer now has to carry more cars on his floor during the winter, he, too, has benefited because his selling season is longer. The one snag is used cars. A new model may excite a prospect into an early purchase but second-hand cars are still bought...
NORMANDIE--Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupation, which is known as the COCKTAIL hour (apologies to HWL.) Every afternoon from 4.30-7.30. Popular Prices Always Prevail...
...necessary for these high ranking Chinese to go on foot through the dusty streets of Tangku, and stand humbly in the broiling sun before the heavy gates of the Japanese barracks in this Chinese town, until Japanese soldiers deigned to open. Inside, the Japanese plenipotentiaries were of insultingly lower rank than the Chinese they forced to sign on the dotted line...
...transcontinental rates fall from $160 to $139.95 for single tickets, from $136 to $118.95 in scrip. Time is 15½ hours eastbound, 16½westbound. Minimum coast-to-coast rail fare, including a lower berth, is $113.25 for a 3½-day trip...
...profit a forwarding company looks solely to the spread between the lower freight rate on full car shipments and the higher rate on less-than-carload lots ("l.c.l."). In practice the forwarding companies charge something less than the going l.c.l. rates, which makes their service more attractive to shippers than ordinary railroad service. Last year U. S. Freight took in about $40,000,000 from shippers, paid out in actual transportation charges about $32,000,000, most of which went to the railroads. Handling the innumerable small pieces of freight cost another $7,000,000, and when...