Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1933 U. S. silver producers got 25? an oz. for their product. Before the year was out they were getting 43 (devalued) cents. Then President Roosevelt by proclamation decreed that the Treasury would give them 64½¢ an oz. for all the silver they produced. For fifteen months they have joyfully sold their output to the New Deal at that price-a better price than they had received since 1926. Last week President Roosevelt upped the price of silver again, this time to 71? which, except for the Wartime boom, was the best price that metal had enjoyed...
After all it is a commodity the scarcity of which is due rather to forgetfulness than to expensiveness. Since the hey-day of the great Sears Roebuck catalogues the manufacturers have realized the necessity of an efficient yet economically priced product. I beg you to urge the students through your powerful editorial columns to join in the fight to expel this insidiously constant reminder that Harvard men are petty thieves. Let us not sell our honor for ten cents. Let us have no more marking with colored crayons of objects which at one time or another have to come...
...your March 18 issue of TIME you published an article regarding our product - Dufaycolor film, and while we received many favorable comments and much publicity from this article there are several discrepancies which have proved quite embarrassing...
...boat, more streamlined and less v-bottomed than last year's product, is the first one to be built by Harvard of domestic wood and is looked upon as an experiment, but to date it has seemed in no way inferior to the foreign woods formerly considered indispensable...
...market. The famed wood-frame Hodgson house, originated 43 years ago by Boston's E. F. Hodgson, can be bought for considerably less. Sears, Roebuck & Co. will put a bungalow together for $2,500. But the prefabricated house builders hope to meet this competition by making their product twice as good as the cheapest house. They offer at least three things which Hodgson and Sears, Roebuck do not: termite-proof steel frames, airconditioning, fireproof materials. The prefabricated house is also earthquake-proof, can be blown over only by a 135-mi. gale...