Word: output
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Output per farm worker in the U.S. has been multiplied 2½ times in the past 50 years. In 1787 it took 19 American farm people to support one other person, in addition to feeding themselves. Nowadays 19 farm people can support themselves, 56 other Americans and ten persons in other countries...
...Institute was born (in 1933) out of the union of one man's mind and another man's money. Comparing the scholarly output of Germany, England, France and the U.S., Abraham Flexner deplored the "wild, uncontrolled and uncritical expansion" in U.S. universities. Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister Mrs. Felix Fuld gave Flexner $5,000,000 to start a place where a few scholars could just "sit and think." Scientist Vannevar Bush was skeptical: "Well, I can see how you could tell whether they were sitting...
Somebody said he lived at 10 Apathy Way and was undecided, and somebody else said that he had to vote for Thurmond because Eiscuhower isn't running. And that winds up the poll's comic output, except that I forgot to say that Calvin Coolidge also got a vote, and just in case even this master stroke of wit leaves you glum, it at least should remind you that when Dorothy Parker heard that Coolidge had died, she asked "How can they tell...
Machines for Herr Donath. What is left of German industry is working full blast. Production has nearly doubled in a year, is now at 70% of the 1936 level. Coal output has climbed to over 300,000 tons a day. Steel production has risen to a rate of 7,000,000 tons a year...
...production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped 1,500), hoped to catch up by next April, when its output (now 150 cars a day) should hit 300. Peugeot, privately owned, is now exporting 50 cars a month of its $1,595 "202" model...