Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contributions must be the product of unusual thought or unusual knowledge and must deal with subjects hitherto untreated or at least presented in a fresh light. Principally, however, each article must have a value which will "survive long after the month in which it is published...
Just as many a corporation executive has on his desk a looseleaf book in which are the latest statistics and charts of sales by product and region, of profits, of raw materials, etc., etc., so Mr. Hurja has at his elbow a compendious black volume. He can quickly turn through it to any state or subdivision. If he opens it on the 16th Congressional District of Illinois, he finds a salmon-pink chart indicating that the Congressman there is a Republican. If he were a Democrat the sheet would be white. Under the Congressman's name are the returns...
...cotton, wheat, tobacco, peanuts) made similar recoveries of some $150,000,000. Thus the august Court had, in effect, declared a $200,000,000 melon for U. S. farm-product processors. By last week many a processors' customer was impatiently looking for his cut. In Manhattan a small, blond Ultimate Consumer named Edwin Reiskind brought suit "on behalf of myself and all other consumers of agricultural products." This Russian-born left-winger sought to restrain Standard Milling Co., National Biscuit Co., Wheatena Corp., Postum Co., Consolidated Cigar Corp., Corn Products Refining Co. and 19 other companies from "disposing...
Intelligent spectators have long stigmatized the benevolent protection of the red-white-and-blue-bunting patriots for what it is: an attempt on the part of carefree demagogues to champion the people against imaginary dangers, merely because they want to be champions. The product of this pernicious alignment is an unnatural and unhealthy resentment among the masses against the intellectuals, who are supposed to be dabbling with explosive ideas. It is just such a situation that in ancient times gave the hemlock juice to Socrates, and, in our own day and state, blasted the senatorial hopes of Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Follow the Fleet" follows the flock of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers dainties, which, in the past year, have delighted American lovers of song, dance, and whimsy. It musical score comes from Irving Berlin, and its plot is the product of the union of two Broadway successes, "Shore Leave" and "Hit the Deck...