Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earnings. The maxim now says "15 times earnings." This is known as Raskob's Rule, because one day in March 1928, John Jacob Raskob, then finance director of General Motors, walked up a gangplank on his way to Europe and remarked that 15-times was a proper modern ratio-that General Motors ought to have been selling at that time...
...That the ratio of human v. mechanical endurance was enormously enlarged in favor of mechanical, to the credit of the Curtiss-Challenger motor...
With these results the ratio of men making the Dean's List in the different classes remains almost the same as at Mid-years. At that time, 24.9 percent of the Senior Class received this honor, together with 18.4 percent of the Juniors, 13.2 percent of the Sophomores, and 13.9 percent of the Freshmen...
...nearly six billions of production, New York paid less than one billion dollars in wages.* Thus New York workers made about $6.10 worth of merchandise for every dollar they received in salary. Inasmuch as the ratio of production to salary in such an extra-New York organization as General Electric Co. was 2.6 to 1 (TIME, April 22), compared to 6.1 to 1 for New York, it might appear that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence...
...veterans of last year's strong team. They will all be extraordinarily anxious to score a victory over Harvard on account of the outcome of the 1927 and 1928 contests. In the former year they were defeated 7 to 5 though outhitting Harvard by a nearly 2 to 1 ratio. Last year the hits were even and it was only a single-inning rally that enabled the home team to emerge victorious...