Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor's Cut. Union labor pointed at the fat corporate profits and demanded a bigger cut too. (Average weekly wages in all manufacturing industries rose 9.87% to $51.75.) There was also a significant shift in the size of the cut that the different segments of labor got. John L. Lewis' mine workers, once $24-a-week workers, were the aristocrats of labor; their wages averaged more than $70 a week. The auto workers, once about the best paid, were passed in the wage parade by a handful of others...
...drop-forge worker is a peculiar sort of Joe. ... He makes forgings, eight, nine or ten hours a shift. After work he makes them in the tavern, he makes them at the dinner table, in fact, he makes them wherever and whenever he can get anyone to listen-and he always makes them better than the other...
...Wales, Coal Miner Edward Green-slade had set a record by cutting 145 tons of coal at the rate of 25 tons a shift, only to be beaten by Miner Edward Maybank, who cut an average of 25¾ tons a shift. The individual efforts of many another miner had swelled Britain's weekly coal production to 4,298,700 tons, the highest since August 1940. (Low point: 1,587,700 tons in August 1943). The mine modernization program was still too young to show big results, but it promised even higher production figures for the future. In Lancashire...
...altered to make an efficient and ultra-modern headquarters. Later, when the Social Relations Department and the Department of Psychology split up, it seemed only logical, in view of the close tieup between psychology and acoustics, to turn over a portion of the Laboratory to Psychology and the shift was made...
...favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...