Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Comes Out Here. Hogan developed a simplified system: for the transmitter, a photoelectric scanner that "read" copy from a revolving cylinder; for the receiver, an electrolytic printer that left a thin metal deposit on damp paper (it came out dry). The paper cost a dollar for a 400-ft. roll, enough to last a subscriber for a month...
Tail-wagging slat enthusiasts can put weekend and between-term skiing opportunities to use and still return with their shirts in tow. The only requirements: an inexhaustible appetite for a healthy, outdoor life, the ability to make one's own breakfast, and sufficient willpower to roll out at 7 o'clock in the morning...
Industry, said Charles Wilson, has now benefited from the technological gains of the war. It is in a position where "it normally could begin to roll back prices." Then why doesn't it? There are several reasons, as G.E.'s president sees it. For one, industry has to know what the Government policy will be on price control. More important, it must know what union labor intends...
What Industrialist Wilson wanted to hear was a guarantee from unions that they would not ask for a third round of wage increases next year. If such a guarantee was given, he said, then industry could afford to roll back prices next year...
Would labor stick by such words if industry did what it could to roll back prices? No one could know for sure until the step was taken. Nor was there any certainty that industry alone-without the help of the farmers-could roll back prices much. But now that Wilson had told of his plan, it looked as if it was up to U.S. industry to tell what it would...