Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legislation now requested by the Secretary of Agriculture gives to him arbitrary and autocratic control over the production and distribution of every farm product, perishable or nonperishable. This control will be exercised by the most offensive method-a licensing system where the terms of the license can be fixed by the Secretary, and no one can ship or handle food in intrastate, interstate or foreign commerce without such license. . . . The individual farmer is not mentioned in the licensing clause, yet any farmer who prepares for market or handles for sale any product of his farm, or any association of producers...
...machines. Owned and managed by four Brothers Mills, who are not to be confused with the Four Mills Brothers of Radio, the company has no connection with the $150,000,000 slot machine racket except that it makes the machines. So far as the Brothers Mills know, their notorious product is simply used as a "trade stimulator" or for amusement. Indeed, many a slot machine goes into the mansions of fun-loving financiers. Mills insists that there are several slot machines in Buckingham Palace, and the company has turned out special jobs using $5 gold pieces for a rich Chinese...
...gambling machines account for less than one-third of the Mills slot business. They make pin games; ordinary vending machines for gum. candy and cigarets; automatic phonographs that play one record for 5''. popular in post-Repeal "taverns" and "grills.'' Only significant non-slot Mills product is a counter ice cream freezer selling from...
...book (product of the combined efforts of Paul Peters, George Sklar, Frank Gabrielson, and David Lesan) although arranged in the conventional form of independent sketches, has a definite and consistent undertone of social consciousness. Starting off with biting and amusing satire on the devious methods of the New Deal, it grows into a subtle and persuasive indictment of some of the more annoying phases of our social attitude. Toward the end of the performance the attack became vigorous, and seemed to make the assembled gentry a bit unhappy, but Boston first night audiences cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic...
High-Test. By using phosphoric acid as a catalyst, Dr. Vladimir N. Ipatieff of Chicago obtained from ethylene, propylene and other by-product gases a motor fuel which he said last week increased the speed of an Army airplane by 35 m. p. h. Best available high-test gasolines have an "octane rating" of 76. Dr. Ipatieff believed himself well on the way to a 100-octane motor fuel, great goal of petroleum chemists...