Word: output
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successful this work--which is being financed through funds provided by the Cabot foundation--would produce rubber-bearing plants with an output greatly exceeding that of the trees over in existence...
Pros & Cons. Shining, new $100 million Volta Redonda ($45 million came from the U.S. Export-Import Bank) still had plenty of "ifs" to it. Important production will not get under way before early next year, and the full output of 750,000 tons of steel per year will not be reached until even later. Volta Redonda's critics claim that the plant is badly placed, that the output will be high-cost. Iron ore must travel south from the rich Minas Geraes deposits over a rickety railroad. Coal comes north from the Santa Catarina mines by an inefficient ship...
...Output of almost all consumer goods was higher in August than in July. Autos, up 10% to 241,000, and refrigerators, down 1% to 218,000, were still behind prewar rates. But output of trucks (105,500 in August), tires (7,100,000), electric irons (608,000) and radios (1,700,000) was running far ahead of prewar averages...
...informal outdoor living and, with no pretensions toward high style, began turning out comfortable, colorful, casual clothes in bright, modernistic factories as different from Manhattan's dark lofts as their bathing suits were from those of 1890. By 1943, 85% of the industry's annual output was going east of the Rockies...
...needed most was money, management and the confidence of the movie industry that it could turn out the films it promised. Loss provided all three; first he raised $500,000, cleaned up debts of almost $100,000. Reorganized with Loss as vice president and general manager, Cinecolor's output of film was increased 250% in six months, chiefly for a dozen small-budget pictures (best-known: The Enchanted Forest...