Word: outputs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increased its assets to a peak of $594,603,470. Two years later during the famed investigation which sired the Securities Exchange Act, Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora brought out that at that peak the "United group" controlled 22-to-23% of U. S. electric production, some 22% of gas output; and that its half billion dollars of common stocks had brought under Morgan domination a utility empire* ("worth...
...customer protection is concerned, get rid of the SEC and of SEC regulations on that subject. We much prefer the latter: it is far simpler, less expensive, less irritating to you and less difficult for us." from an annual 160 to 220 per bird without increased feeding; annual milk output from 8,000 to 12,000 lbs. per cow.) Thus while Author Prentice is personally one of the least likely U. S. citizens to be threatened by hunger, the subject is one that concerns him practically...
...October the warehouses held over 150,000,000 yards of print cloth, about three times as much 'as was sold that month. But the mills, as is their habit, kept operating at close to top speed, meanwhile losing up to ¼? on each yard they loomed. Cotton cloth output in March was 48% above the same month of 1938, while production of all U. S. indus-try was up only 24%. By last week, with the warehouses now crammed with 180-190,000,000 yards of unsold goods, the mills were finally starting to curtail operations...
Leopold Blaschka shipped his first Cowers to Harvard in 1886, as an aid to teaching botany. Thereafter Harvard took the Blaschkas' entire output. Leopold died in 1895, but Rudolph, working on alone, persevered until three years ago when, near 80 and his eyesight failing because of the work, he shipped 15 fruit models to Harvard, soon closed down his studio...
...investment (private and Government) put $15,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000 a year of total new money to work in each War year. Production doubled between 1914 and 1917, the pace of U. S. economic activity stepped up, the way was paved for the still greater output during the 1920s. In 1926 production was 10% greater than the 1917 peak. U. S. economy has grown in size. Example: Wartime steel capacity was overstrained to produce 40,000,000 tons; present capacity is over 70,000,000 tons. In the grown-up economy, equivalent doses of new money...