Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insists (and camp appearances bear out) that morale has risen immensely since the first days, when depression-sore enrollees refused by the thousands to take the CCC oath of allegiance, demolished a mess hall and destroyed trees at Camp Dix, N. J. But the rate of desertions is still high: 48,483 in fiscal 1938; 1,741 last December...
...years, after which the employe draws cash dividends. President Deupree said the plan has reduced his company's labor turnover almost to .5%. Key to its success, said he, was keeping profit-sharing from becoming a substitute for higher wages; P. & G. wages per hour have risen 50% since...
Less intricate to anybody but a bookkeeper was the thorough house-cleaning he gave the company. His first move was to let his employes ride with him in the elevator; his predecessor, Charles B. Seger, had risen to his office in solitary splendor. Mr. Davis told his men to work from nine to five, as he did. He toured the company's antiquated plants and gasped: "They're making tires like they made the pyramids!" He installed assembly line methods, introduced the "merry-go-round" (semicircular tire-building track), eliminated the "one man, one boot" system...
...Osgood, a native of Boston, graduated from Amherst College in 1895 and from the Harvard Medical School in 1899. Since then he has risen to a position of eminence in the field of orthopaedic surgery, and more recently has become quite active in the American Medical Association...
...other trade pacts already in effect- are good precedent, there should be a substantial increase in U. S. trade with Great Britain. Since 1934 U. S. exports have risen 57%. During this period, exports to treaty countries have increased 66.2%, to non-treaty countries...