Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Journal last week. "Milk is the only article of diet whose function in nature is to serve as food. Certainly the values of milk in protein, in mineral salts and in vitamins are sufficient upon which to base claims as to its usefulness without trying to turn the product into a 'patent medicine...
...Macy & Co. for price-cutting on Doubleday books. Whether or not publisher and lawyer had gone abroad to plan their campaign in the privacy of the high seas, their action involved the validity of the Feld-Crawford Fair Trade Act, affected Listerine, Lysol, Jello, Postum, many another nonliterary product...
...Manhattan showrooms, and hotels- however, Ford exhibited the confirmation of a perennial rumor-a medium-priced Ford product. Not a glorified Ford but a completely new car from the Lincoln plants, it was named the Lincoln-Zephyr. Powered with a V12 engine, it is currently made in only two models, a two-door sedan at $1,275 and a four-door at $1,320. Its body construction, like that of the closed Cord models, stems straight from Walter P. Chrysler's adventures in aerodynamics: like the Airflow Chryslers and De Sotos, the Zephyr has no conventional frame; wheels, engine...
...extend her no credit but also would buy nothing from Italy and would mutually assist League States whose trade suffers from such self-denial. Blocked was a British move to have the League propose that its States sell nothing to Italy. On French initiative Geneva proposed instead that "key products" required as war materials be not sold to Italy and the list of these adopted as "Proposal No. 4" was surprisingly short. One "key product": mules...
...bottles, some 550,000,000 liquor bottles per year. The company made money and paid dividends through every year of Depression and for the twelve months ending Sept. 30 showed a $7,894,000 profit. American Can and Continental Can have recently invaded Mr. Levis' territory with their production of beer cans but Owens-Illinois does not worry much about the canned-beer menace, thinks the glass container so much cheaper than the tin container that no serious competition should result. Mr. Levis differs from the older generation of bottle-makers in seeing the bottle as a package...