Word: peak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paralysis when gasoline rationing began. A year ago the auto industry had 500,000 workers, only a fraction of them at war work. Now it has 660,000, with 95% of them at war jobs. The industry produces 60-70% more than it ever did in peacetime-and the peak is still six months away...
...Gross income is about $15.6 billion, a billion more than the World War I peak...
...worthy plan to ease the railroad manpower shortage came last week from, of all places, the powerful Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Their idea: to register all railroad men periodically unemployed at off-peak times on their own roads, for emergency work on nearby railroads where lack of manpower threatens to delay movement of war shipments. Under the scheme the workers would retain their seniority standing with their old railroad but would work under the pay rates and regulations of the railroad temporarily hiring them...
Help Wanted. To hire scarce women workers before the Christmas buying rush reaches its peak, Chicago mail-order firms, chain department stores and State Street emporiums competed with each other in alluring help wanted ads. Promised in some: daily siestas, convenient transportation, club rooms, discounts on merchandise, library on premises, home atmosphere, air-conditioned offices, low-cost coffee shops...
...sales taxes most state finances are in better shape than in years, with some 13 states showing surpluses, including New York, Illinois, California, Mississippi, Ohio. But: 1) The large increase in these collections is about passed since the national income at present prices is close to its potential peak. 2) States face radical reductions in their collections from gasoline taxes, which constituted about 24% of total revenues for the first eight months in 1942. In 1943 these will be off at least 35%. 3) Unless the whole burden of postwar spending is to be thrown on the federal government (thus...