Word: output
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic point was the week's touchiest. Acheson bluntly said that, to the best of his knowledge, East Germany was a deficit economy in which the Russian state had taken possession of a third of all industrial enterprise. Vishinsky painted a different picture of East Germany. Its industrial output, he said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet...
...Illinois Corp., shut down five of its Pittsburgh open-hearth furnaces for lack of orders. In Cleveland, Republic Steel Corp. closed one of its blast furnaces. As orders for specialty steels slacked off, Lukens Steel Co. laid off 150 men. This week, for the first time in 1949, steel output will fall below last year's rate for the same week (94.1% of capacity...
Many manufacturers were still answering the sales slump with layoffs and production cuts. Last week, the Department of Commerce reported that first-quarter output of goods and services in the U.S. was at an annual rate of $256 billion, off $9 billion from the final quarter of 1948 in the sharpest drop since the war. Still, the pace was $1 billion ahead of the average for 1948, biggest year on record. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that manufacturing employment fell by 330,000 between mid-March and mid-April. But seasonal increases in trade and construction offset the loss...
Your April 18 issue carried a story dealing with scented movies. Reportedly, one Hans Laube left this country because there were no takers. A humble observation is that 90% of Hollywood's output definitely smells...
...figured he could reduce government personnel by at least 6% simply by not filling vacancies that occurred through death and resignations. In addition he would throw out some drones. Said Douglas sternly in a distinctly un-New Dealish voice: "Getting rid of these people would actually raise the output because it would create better morale and a greater will to work in the remainder of the personnel...