Word: output
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...built up a working force of 6,000 native miners, provided them with movies, hospitals, and excellent working conditions. He seldom left his remote house in Tanganyika and he amused himself by listening to the radio and reading. Last year the annual output of his mine reached an estimated value...
Last week, after months of iron-curtained negotiations, the cartel finally won out. Britain's Colonial Secretary, Arthur Creech Jones, announced in the House of Commons that Williamson Diamond Corp., Ltd. and two smaller Tanganyika producers had agreed to market their output only through the Diamond Trading Co., Ltd., selling agent for the syndicate...
Still to be heard from were bellwethers Bethlehem and U.S. Steel. But they were getting that old price-raising feeling, too. Both companies raised pig-iron prices $3 a ton. Big Steel brushed off the raise as a bookkeeping device. It uses almost all its pig-iron output itself. But the raise was a plain sign of the way both companies were thinking. With the ice broken by smaller companies-and the pattern already set-both were expected to increase steel prices also, thus assuring a general rise in the industry...
Domestic growers were unanimously pleased with it. They should have been. Their quotas were boosted a generous 20% above their average 1936-45 output. And they were promised subsidies if they were good enough to stay within their quotas. On the other hand, foreign producers in such countries as Peru got quota cuts. Though small, these cuts will put a painful crimp in their dwindling dollar balances. And Cuba, though it got an increased quota, was also saddled with a clause which, in effect, threatened revocation of her quota if she failed to settle any private claims that U.S. nationals...
Each year Library of Congress film reviewers wade through Hollywood's entire annual output, make some careful selections to add to the Library's vast (65 million feet) film collection. Now, after examining the 1,348 features, short subjects and newsreels copyrighted in 1946, the Library has taken its annual pick: 132 features, 176 shorts, all of the 531 newsreels...