Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hampered efforts to organize the suppliers. Because of intense competition in the supply business, automakers largely dictate the prices paid for parts, and thus in effect the wages paid by their makers. Harry Bennett last week announced: "Our purchasing department has been instructed not to favor parts manufacturers with low wage rates at the expense of competitors with higher wage scales and better working conditions...
...figure surpassed only by the 10.7 rate for the entire year of 1933. Some 60% of the total 1938 decline was due to the remarkably small death toll of pneumonia and influenza last winter. Other factors pulling down the 1938 death rate: 1) low maternal mortality, which now amounts to 4.4 per 1,000 live births, 15% less than 1937; 2) lower incidence of tuberculosis, which shows signs of declining for the first time to less than five deaths per 10,000; 3) fewer auto accidents, which show a 20% mortality decline over...
...screen he decided he was an even worse actor than salesman, became a messenger boy for Samuel Goldwyn. When General Pershing was being shown around the lot one day he spied Wellman, whom he had known when Wellman and Poloist Tommy Hitchcock were famed for their trick of flying low over German towns and firing their machine guns at church bells. Said Pershing: "Why, Bill, you old son of a gun, how are you?" Next day Wellman was made an assistant director...
There was equal confusion on how much money actually would be spent. One estimate was as low as $79,000,000 a year to provide the new generators, boilers, etc. necessary to eliminate power "bottle-necks," modernize plants in war material centres. Floyd Carlisle, however, thought expenditure might reach $2,000,000,000 in two years...
...Francisco judge found him guilty of pocketing emoluments of some $300,000 from a loan his bank made to a firm reselling Government steel after the War (TIME, Sept. 6, 1937, et seq.). This year another judge ordered him to pay damages of $651,579 for selling at too low a price some oil lands belonging to certain Lazard Frères heirs in 1915-17. Although he has appealed both cases. Herbert Fleishhacker last week cited them in turning in his resignation. "I feel," said he, "that the best interests of the bank may be prejudiced by my serving...