Word: productivity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economists, the Twentieth Century report finds that there is plenty of room for dynamic expansion in the U.S. economy. Thus the report estimates that in 1950 57,000,000 will be employed. They will be working fewer hours (an average of 41 a week) to produce a gross national product of $177 billion (in terms of 1944 prices)-nearly double the best prewar year. The U.S. economy will then be short only some 13% in goods & services of maintaining the entire population at a satisfactory standard of living. By 1960, some 60,200,000 people will be working an average...
...light of current production, the report seemed conservative. There are now 58,000,000 employed and the gross national product is running at the rate of about $195 billion ($166 billion in 1944 prices). The report expects that the present working force will drop as some of the overfull employment is eliminated. Nevertheless, to come up to the report's minimum projection, the U.S. will have to increase its output only 7% in the next four years. Compared to what the U.S. has done in the last six years under forced draft, this seemed small...
When war cut off materials needed for certain scents, the Guerlains, Pierre and Jacques, jealous of the house's 119-year-old reputation, stopped making them, rather than put out an inferior product. When bombers wiped out the Guerlain laboratory in the suburbs, they started mixing perfumes in the basement of their Champs-Elyseés shop. No one but Pierre and Jacques and their four sons knows how the scents are blended. The Guerlains do the work themselves, use girls only to bottle perfume. For months the perfumes were rationed and G.I.s used to line...
...when such acts are rare. One of the world's most inspired and most popular artists-a man who for decades has delighted people of all races, from children to highbrows-now deliberately releases a film which almost nobody can wholly like. Many will detest the product and despise Chaplin for producing it. He has replaced his beloved, sure-fire tramp with an equally original, but far less engaging character-a man whose grace and arrogance alone would render him suspect with the bulk of the non-Latin world. He has gone light on pure slapstick and warm laughter...
While plans for an all-Harvard memorial are being tossed about in committee, two houses have already come up with definite ideas and all the others have some project under consideration. Dunster House boasts the only finished product to date, however...