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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between Dover and Calais. Electric locomotives doing 92 m.p.h. would pull trains carrying 508 passengers. The trip would take two hours, 45 minutes. The fare would be ?2 ($8). There would be 22 trains daily. The cost would be ?190 million. Annual gross receipts would be ?35 million; net profit, ?12 million. That would be 6.3% on the investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Death of a Dreamer | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...succeeded in keeping prices down. But OPA's victory has also been the consumers' loss, because manufacturers of "low-end" goods, between soaring labor and raw materials costs on one side and inflexible ceilings on their prices on the other, found themselves squeezed out of profits. Result: they largely quit civilian production-and "upgraded" the rest. Half of production went into military orders. The other half became "higher-quality" merchandise-sometimes a matter of adding as little as an extra color to a fabric-where the spread between costs and selling prices nets a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Cost of Ceilings | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...broadcast-are a pleasure to watch. Even better is Judy Garland. As sung by Cinemactress Garland, Embraceable You and Bidin' My Time become hits all over again, and the new But Not For Me sounds like another. Her presence is open, cheerful, warming. If she were not so profitably good at her own game, she could obviously be a dramatic cinema actress with profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 27, 1943 | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...mines, put his finger on one trouble with Bevin's plan. Said he: "If you conscript a man for the Army he goes willingly to fight for country, home and bairns. If you conscript him for the pits he is told to fight for other men's profit." The House's lone Communist Willie Gallacher said it another way: "If it is proposed to ballot young men into the pits, it is time to ballot the owners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Coal: A Dilemma | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...than his 55 years, has the small businessman's visceral belief in competition. With 900 employes, twice his peacetime average, his simple, ungrammatical attitude toward Big Business is that "the further management gets from the job the easier it is to lick them." His company has had a profit-sharing deal with its employes since 1919, has never had a work stoppage, and has never been organized by C.I.O. or A.F. of L. (its open-shop independent union: the Industrial Employes Association). And although he admitted to being a Republican, the nearest thing to an anti-New Deal statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Fireworks at the Waldorf | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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