Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan cut-rate drugstore resolutely fought inflation with a sign: "All nickel candies...
Even the swarms of eager young musicians whose war-stunted careers are blossoming out all over England cannot adequately fill the ranks of the nine symphony orchestras in London. Without including the minor ones, there are three first rate orchestras. The B.B.C., alternately under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron, is probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since...
This extension of judicial activity led to such a mass of litigation and such elaborate fact finding that the courts have in recent years largely abandoned this function with the result that rate making has become a much more scientific and a much less time consuming process in the hands of regulatory commissions. Viewed in the light of the courts' past experience with complicated industrial matters, the currently pressing portal-to-portal pay suits appear to be grist for arbitrating bodies or labor-management conferences rather than material or judicial decision...
...such suits--the Mount Clemens Pottery Company case. He quotes as an indispensable part of his decision such fascinating statistics as these: mean distance from time clock to the bisque sagger filling department 528 feet; time required to reach Bisque sagger filling department at the determined walking rate of 250 or 275 feet per minute, depending on whether the worker enters from the South or North gate 1.92 minutes; time to grease arms 30 seconds; time to take clay off jigger machine one minute...
...shortages and controls in 1946, actual profits lived up to the great expectations. The big boost came in the final quarter of 1946. Then, the Department of Commerce estimated, production had increased to such a peak that the national income (wages, rents, net corporate profits, etc.) was at a rate of $173 billions annually v. $164 billions for the whole year...