Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since adoption of a 30 hour week would provide increased leisure and an accompanying increased desire to spend, particularly on travel items, it would help solve this important phase of the economic problem. Efficiencies of the two shift system that the six hour day would necessitate would, said Professor Hansen, result either of which might in the long run contribute to demand...
Transportation. The shift to the Pacific will make the load on railroads heavier. Further curtailment of passenger service may be necessary. Airplane priorities must be continued...
...outpouring of first-quarter earnings hit their flood last week, they washed up a few surprises. Biggest surprise was that many companies made more money this year than in the vintage year of 1944. despite a wide shift in war orders and increasing operating costs. The National City Bank of New York, totting up the returns of some 310 companies, reported that net profits, after taxes, were up a respectable 6% for the quarter...
...other hand there was the evidence of Mrs. Mayle, a midwife, who after a careful examination of Elizabeth's torn shift assured her mother: "You may make yourself easy, for I see by it that no man has debauched your child...
This put the makers of pianos & piccolos on the same footing as Detroit's automakers, who have long hoped for special reconversion favors. It disappointed the automen, but it pleased those who had feared that WPB planned to shift the U.S. back to peace cautiously, industry by industry, and thus penalize some...