Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attlee still talked of "limited emergency." To get more coal (agreed by all to be the No. 1 need for the revival of Britain), he proposed to miners that "there should be, as an emergency measure, for a limited period, an extra half-hour's work per day." To place and keep workers (including "spivs and other drones") in essential industries, "it will be necessary to resume to a limited extent the use of powers of direction." To reduce Britain's projected 1948 overseas military establishment of 1,087,000 men, Attlee proposed a cut of only...
...veto would drag out the drafting of a hemispheric defense treaty at the Rio Conference that opens this week (TIME, Aug. 11). But just before boarding ship for Rio, Bramuglia made a startling announcement: his country would bow to majority decisions after all. Maybe there was more to Juan Perón's current "peace offensive" than the pundits had thought...
Following Usborne's blueprints, one representative per million of population would be sent to Geneva to draft the constitution of the world...
...quantity which emits the same number of particles per second as one milligram of pure radium element...
...deft touch with employees. He bought each one a cake on his birthday, gave brief parties in the store and held ten-minute get-togethers each morning to plan selling strategy. Bob's technique paid off: his St. Cloud store sells 3½ times the national average per square foot for stores in its class. Last year his small-town chain grossed $8,000,000. Says he: "All you have to do is watch your inventories...