Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tobacco is the product of big growers and its regulation will be almost altogether compulsory. Not only are no loans mandatory, but marketing quotas can be invoked with a referendum when supplies are 5% over normal, and penalties are 50% of the purchase price...
...almost $1,000,000, at the set reviewing-charge rate of $6.25 a reel, for the sweeping imprimatur, "Passed by the National Board of Review." To better cinema groups, women's clubs, educational organizations and to some State and municipal legislatures, this O. K. has signified a tested product. And the industry, well aware that few films submitted ever fail to pass, has been more than happy to pay the modest reviewing charge for this sort of testing...
...anyone will see, who cares to spend two and a half enjoyable hours at RKO Boston, Dolores Del Rio is back in circulation, more beautiful and versatile than ever. The picture which brings her back. "International Settlement," is trivial enough; it is a by-product of the excess footage news-reel crews brought back from China, and in noted for its phenomenal lack of anything resembling a plot. But it stars Miss Del Rio and it is a good picture...
...amounts to $250,000,000 a year, which is "slightly bigger than the barbershop business and very slightly smaller than the jewelry business." Only $38,000,000 is spent for simple male equipment, the rest for women's. Manufacturing and retail markups ranged from 120% to 300%. "No product is very satisfactory," found FORTUNE, and "the only method yielding even a semblance of certainty was that which the subjects were taught after coming to [a] clinic...
...idea to recommend, and be mentioned little else. The Dean wants to improve the quality of building now being done, and be realizes that this can only be done by improving the ability of those who do the building as is the workman, so is his product. The journalistic counterpart of this idea provides a similar basis for the Nieman Fellowships. Thus Dean Hudnut plans to require the students of his School to take an outside apprenticeship of at least six months before graduation, the object being more practical experience with actual tools of the trade. In short, he wants...