Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite a five-day week, despite Saturdays and Sundays in New York, despite a maximum disciplinary penalty of being turned back to their draft boards, and despite a scale of living which costs the country $60,000 a day, nearly 15% of all those enrolled since Sept. 1 have quit in midcourse. Stay-ons salute them as "Sucker...
...taxes on corporation income (which in a free market should be a just return for risks taken and jobs provided); 2) "a new (and better) undistributed profits tax" designed to keep corporations from hoarding money instead of putting it to productive use; 3) personal income taxes on a graduated scale, but never becoming so high as to prevent individuals from saving and investing their money; 4) a high - perhaps confiscatory -inheritance...
...four great fields, argued Kaiser, U.S. industry can in fact create jobs of an unprecedented scale. They are: 1) housing, where there is a pent up demand for 9,000,000 housing units; 2) transport, where the pent up demand for automobiles is immense; 3) the need for a vast, modern highway system; 4) adequate medical facilities and care for the health problems of the industrial age. In addition Kaiser pointed out: "The Atlantic Charter is no bilateral guaranty of British-American supremacy. Let it be said again that there will never be any significant prosperity in America as long...
...spread over 100 lb. of steel. The old hot-dip process used 1½ lb. So $15 million worth of tin electroplating equipment was built, on the expectation that much tin used for U.S. tinplate would be saved. Nowhere before has electroplating been done on such an enormous production scale. Some single tinning lines turn out a continuous sheet three-feet wide, passed through a furnace at 1,300 feet per minute-enough to cover an entire football field every 18 minutes. But the plated coating is not perfect. Dull grey, its porosity and corrosion resistance are not satisfactory...
...cleaned out, all we have lost must be regained, and a method of defeating the Nipponese must be devised. The Russians and Chinese must benefit from a flow of supplies from the American cornucopia. In the nation, "black markets," devastating crimps in production, and on a more lasting scale the uisheartening defeats of democracy like the recent Southern filibuster over the poll tax bill show than there is still a long road to travel...