Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of his discussion yesterday was confined to a factual outline of the British attitude toward training men for technical positions. "This war is a technical war in which physicists and engineers in particular are at a high premium," he stated in the opening portion of his speech. Although the British realize the necessity for having doctors, physicists, engineers, and chemists, "the academic world has come to the conclusion that the war must first...
...deputy to Sidney Hillman in defense. Last fortnight Lubin returned with a plan that pleased everybody-shipbuilders, union men, OPM, the Navy, the Maritime Commission. In the first overall, zone-wide agreement of its kind, labor gained a $1.12 wage scale (compared to $1 in most yards before), a premium of 10% for the first night shift and 15% for the second night shift. Management got help toward putting production on a continuous basis by a uniform settlement on Saturday rates (time-and-a-half). With all yards offering the same terms (even those now paying more than $1.12 will...
...London dailies is that the scarcity of their space has made it more t valuable to advertisers. Ad rates have been upped to an average ?9 per column inch (as compared to a pre-war average of about ?5). But this average does not take into account such premium rates as ?10 to ?15 charged for "special position," i.e., front-page corners, space bordering editorials, etc. For a two-column ad eleven inches deep-the maximum allowed-an advertiser may pay the same price as formerly for a half-page. Penny papers last week changed from seven columns to eight...
Britons' hunger is conditioned by two thing.: 1) the scarcity of refrigerator cargo space, 2) the constant bombing of gas mains, which puts a premium on food that does not have to be cooked. They also want the maximum of food in the minimum of space. This means they want as much of their meat as possible in tins, which is not the way the U. S. is accustomed to packing it. The Argentine tins meat, but can supply the British only to the extent that the U. S. can send her tin plate (which she normally gets from...
...authority to start it had arrived). Where a steel water tank had been planned, with no steel at hand, a 132-foot concrete monster stood last week. When the lumber supply threatened to run short, Army buyers combed the Carolinas and part of Georgia, cornered the regional market (at premium prices), and kept well ahead of the carpenters. A two-story frame bar racks, from concrete foundation to the last shingle, was run up in ten days. Some where on Bragg's busy landscape a new building was finished every 32 minutes of the working day (eight hours...