Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story about the Henry Ford funeral (TIME, April 21) was making the rounds. As the motormaker's body lay in state at Greenfield Village, single lines of mourners were passing the casket at the rate of 3,000 an hour. As the waiting crowd piled up, a Ford executive gave a low-voiced order. "At 3 o'clock," said he, "we'll put Plan B info operation...
...barmen all over Dublin have chipped in two shillings a week to keep up Paddo's and Con's wages, and the pickets have seemed happy enough in their new jobs. There is a hoary old sign in Downey's window: "Hello, Paddo," it says. "Standard Rate of Wages Paid Here to All Employees." And that's the truth. But with Jim it's a matter of principle. And so the pickets pace, while Jim worries about them. Last March, Jim was out there in the snow sweeping off the sidewalk "so the boys wouldn...
...efficiency and technological improvement. A startling example of what improvement in productivity means: national output in 1940 was 27 times larger than in 1850, though the labor force was only nine times greater and worked only 43 hours a week instead of 70. If such productivity continues its average rate of growth since 1850 (18% a decade), the U.S. will easily meet the estimated demands for 1950-60. If it grows at the rate which prevailed in. the last two decades (20%), the U.S. would nearly meet estimated needs as well...
...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...
Yale Men Don't Rate...