Word: productively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each card is indexed by name, locality, product and capacity a manufacturer who has agreed to turn out a stipulated quantity of army matériel. So far the Department has found no way to get around the cost-plus contract of World War ill-fame. But the 400 different contract forms in use then have been reduced to five, in the hope that simple phrasing and fore-analysis of actual plant costs may hold profiteering to a minimum...
...Switzerland synthesized it from coal tar. Dr. Evans promptly fed alpha tocopherol to sterile rats, and this week he told the International Physiological Congress at Zurich, Switzerland, that all 200 of the rats gave birth to average-sized litters. Synthetic Vitamin E is just as strong as the natural product, does not seem to keep so long, has not yet been tried on humans. How it works, no one knows. One thing is certain: Vitamin E does not stimulate the sex glands...
Scott paper is made at a slick modern plant at Chester, Pa., where scientific improvement is the guiding passion and a minimum wage of 60? an hour has obviated labor troubles. Chief reason for the company's success is its product, specially created for softness and absorptive qualities. Two other factors help explain why Scott's big Fourdrinier machines now work a 24-hour day seven days a week (one of them has done so since 1924). As pointed out in the latest Brookings Institution tome, Industrial Price Policies and Economic Progress (TIME, July 18), Scott...
...patient rapidly recovered. Dr. Mellon then plunged into an intensive study of the action of this drug, a combination of benzene, a sulfur compound and naphthalene, called prontosil. He learned that: 1) one of its three ingredients, naphthalene, was medically worthless; 2) sulfanilamide, a cheaper U. S. product, composed of the other two ingredients, would do everything prontosil could do. Last fortnight, together with Dr. Paul Gross and Frank B. Cooper, Pittsburgh Institute of Pathology chemist. Dr. Mellon published the first complete appraisal of sulfanilamide, the most remarkable drug of this generation...
...were indeed manufactured helter-skelter by almost anyone who had $5,000 and an urge to see his name or image magnified. Influx of money and brains long since turned Hollywood's film studios into sharply defined units organized along the lines of most other agencies of mass production, except that the nature of their product makes the system more complex...