Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peter, Millicent and the trapper playing to see who sleeps in the cabin's only bed. Son of a Kenosha, Wis. saloon keeper, Don Ameche attended Columbia (Iowa), Marquette, Georgetown and Wisconsin Universities in quick succession. In his vacations he worked. His easiest job was testing the finished product of a mattress factory. His hardest was in a cement factory, loading trucks. When he left college he joined the Jackson Stock Company whose leading man a week later conveniently broke his leg. Substituting for him, Ameche played a year in stock, took a vaudeville tour with the late Texas...
...York Produce Exchange began trading in frozen eggs two years ago, but in this product as in shell eggs New York remains primarily a spot market. *Not burying but drying or sealing in alkaline paste. The latter method, by which old eggs attain a rare delicacy (for the Chinese) comparable to that of old brandy (for Westerners), has never found favor...
...position and of such influences as may affect its trend in the future." GM in 1936 sold 2,037,690 automobiles and trucks, exceeding by 7% the previous all- time high mark of 1,899,267 (1929). For these cars last year and for many another GM product, including Frigidaires, Diesel engines & locomotives, Delco heating, lighting and radio units, GM received $1,439,290,000, a 25% gain in net sales over 1935. Net profits for 1936 were $238,482,000, compared with $167,227,000 in the previous year...
United Gas Co. added an ironic note by revealing that up to this January it had sold the New London School Board a natural gas mixed with a tell-tale odorant that might have prevented the blast. But the most ironic product of the tragedy was right on top of the wreckage. Blown out of the ruined building was a section of blackboard on which someone had scrawled: "Oil and natural gas are East Texas' greatest mineral blessings. Without them this school would not be here, and none of us would be here learning our lessons...
...aspect of this exuberance is the obvious pains that Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have put themselves to in writing the book. They have tried so hard to make their product entertaining that one is somehow won over by the pervasive enthusiasm, and persuaded to forgive them the lack of any brilliance. Their attempts at social comment are especially feeble. They apparently felt that no play could dare to appear before this hyper-socially-conscious world without some reference to President Roosevelt, the American race problem, Communism, and "Comes the Revolution", even if that play be an avowed farce. Their...