Word: pers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Furthermore, said Nathan, the workers had earned a raise: "The buying power of hourly rates of pay ... in the steel industry increased one-seventh between 1939 and 1949, whereas productivity per man-hour rose by 50% ... In the short run, changes in productivity are more affected by changes in ... labor skill than by technology." (Another labor witness later conceded that "it is almost impossible to separate the contributions made by the worker, the machine, or management to increased productivity...
Since May, U.S.-Argentine trade has increased roughly 50%. The Argentines are gradually paying off their short-term U.S. debt. Perón has told Bruce that Argentina, which once more is trading at world prices, will shortly fold up its state-trading agency...
Last week, as Perón bade him goodbye at Moron airport, Ambassador Bruce could tell himself that he had fulfilled Harry Truman's 1947 orders to "go down and make friends with those people." He could also say that he had made some dent in Argentine economic thinking...
...Delays. Barton's Benthoscope (which cost $15,000) is an improvement on the Bathysphere ($12,000). Fifty-seven and a half inches in diameter, weighing 7,000 pounds, it is more stoutly built (of 1¾ in. steel) for the tremendous pressures at lower depths-2,000 pounds per square inch at 4,500 feet. It also has a new three-inch quartz window, slanted toward the bottom; the Bathysphere had side windows only. It carries a six-hour supply of oxygen in cylinders, fans to keep the air circulating, and trays of soda lime to absorb the carbon...
...compound became known in every country, selling in China as "Smooth Sea's Pregnancy Womb Birth-Giving Magical 100 Per Cent Effective Water." Perhaps its crowning triumph came in 1944, when an Army chaplain took some snapshots of South Pacific natives just liberated from the Japanese. One picture showed a native woman in front of a thatched jungle hut, surrounded by her possessions-meager indeed, but among them one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, the grandmotherly face on the label mild and benign as ever...