Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several ways to restore the carrot suggest themselves. Any form of payment by results works in the right direction. So does any attempt to preserve the margins of income that can be secured by greater skill or experience -and it is the real margin, after taxation, that counts. ... It will only lead to disaster to pretend that ordinary human beings are angels or philosophers (of either the Marxist or the Spencerian professions). . . . Even in the 20th Century, most of them are more like donkeys driven by desire for gain or fear of hunger...
...Politician Harry Truman had counted on Congress picking up the cue and becoming his supporting cast in a last-minute rescue, he soon learned his mistake. Within a few minutes after hearing his message, the House-by a margin of 38 votes-sustained the veto. The Senate turned down a resolution that would have extended the present law temporarily. It required unanimous consent-and Texan O'Daniel immediately objected. At midnight, 34 hours later, OPA died...
...James F. Barclay, director of the Film Service, acknowledges that he has temporarily struck a snag. To carry out his present plan in bettering the film, Barclay faces the task of superimposing three pictures on a single frame. A triple exposure, he claims, means far too great a margin of error, and he is afraid that if he put what he wanted on celluloid, lined up the three desired simultaneous images, and fired away, that the bottom picture would be obliterated by the top two and the total result would be confusion...
...months ago, the House chose the first course. Its bill would wipe out all food subsidies, guarantee every producer and distributor a "reasonable" (and undefined) profit margin, and end price controls whenever production of an article reached the 1941 level. That combination of pressure-group policies would raise the indexes a good 25 percent at once, with further sharp boosts to follow as output really begins to flow. Establishing 1941 supply s the norm looks good at first sight, but on closer examination resembles an attempt to measure the avalanche with a rain-gauge. For five years the consumer...
...Elis tumbled them twice, 10 to 6 and 3 to 2; Kings Point has beaten both Crimson and Blue, but while the former succumbed, 10 to 2, the latter lost by only 4 to 3; Connecticut beat the Stahlmen by one run and was upset by the same margin by the Elis...