Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding facts in the industrial world today is the rapid development of what is commonly called the "employee representation" movement. This movement is not so peculiar to the United States; British, French, Italian and German industrial managers and workers have gone further in it than we have. It is known by various names, such as "shop committees," "workers' control," "industrial democracy," and the like...
...first home dual meet was that with M. I. T., which was held in the Stadium on May 7. The University was conceded the victory before the meet started, but the margin was larger than was expected. The times of all the races showed that the men had made rapid progress since the beginning of the season; one of the reasons for this was the fighting spirit which the men all gave proof of. The field event men also showed a good deal of improvement in their performances, and scored 31 points for the Crimson's total. A large part...
...possible 250, were as follows: C. P. Swinnerton ocC., 232; Algerton Black '23, 217; A. F. Birch E.S., 215; R. A. Culler '22, 206; G. M. Ramsey ocC., 204. There were two scores of 5 shots each, slow fire, at 15 and 25 yards, and one rapid fire, at 25 yards...
...score of 1727 to 1633. Each team was composed of ten men, and the largest number of points that could be made was 2000. The shooting was done at the distances of fifteen and twenty-five yards, and the firing was both slow, with no time limit, and rapid, with 5 shots in 20 seconds. Each man's total, therefore, contained four separate scores...
With the war, there came "a sudden rapid, extensive economic change; a rapid growth of government owned and operated industries; and new classes of work and workers" which caused a "tremendous dislocation of the existing conditions",--including substitution of national for district wage systems; extensive payment by result, bonuses, and price fixing without experience. Mr. Clay said one of the most disastrous results of the war to the stability of industrial conditions in England was the severing by the official control of wages of the normal contact between the trade unions and the employers...