Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Landon: The Brazilian trade agreement permitted "a new jungle product," babassu nuts and oils (TIME, Sept. 14) to enter the U. S. duty free to compete with...
Upon Meyer's aerial artillery the outcome of the game largely depends. Last Saturday, Army's line did not turn in a world-beating account of themselves in their 27-16 victory against Columbia. Nor were their lower drives too formidable. The victory was essentially a Meyer pass product. All this week, Harlow has con- centrated on stopping the Meyer missives, and the Crimson star hangs largely on the success of these efforts...
...Longest Night (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first production effort of shrewd, satchel-faced Sam Marx, erstwhile MGM story editor, super-supervised by Lucien Hubbard. Why such a product should call for twin entrepreneurs remains mysterious, since The Longest Night is designed rather for the Saturday morning diversion of schoolchildren than for the august judgment of the cognoscenti. It is a reasonably brisk embodiment of what neighborhood houses expect from a murder in a department store, including fun in the firearms department, wax dummies that come alive and slap policemen on the shoulder, pistol shots from a secret elevator...
Specifically outlawed are such practices as charging different prices for the same or similar goods unless justified by actual differences in manufacturing, transportation or selling cost (aimed at the practice of selling the same product under different names, at different prices), giving or taking special considerations except for services rendered (aimed at commercial bribery as well as at the agent who is in fact a principal), offering services, facilities, rebates not available to all on "proportionately" equal terms (a provision hitting at special Allowances for advertising...
...spent more than $1,000,000 in the next few years growing them, finding out how they could be used. Few months ago the River Rouge works got a $5,000,000 addition in the shape of a soy-bean processing plant. Into Ford cars at present go the product of some 60,000 acres of soybeans. The oil goes into glycerine for shock-absorbers, enamel for body finishes, binder for foundry cores. The meal, turned into plastics, rolls off the assembly line as horn buttons, gearshift knobs, window-trims, distributor cases...