Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tradesmen. This week Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt reported that employers are waiving usual labor requirements, taking what they can get. He noted that one engineering company had hired an 89-year-old man from a State employment agency, that even the supply of migratory farm labor is shorter than usual...
...skilled-labor problem last week. One was Alfred P. Sloan Jr., head of General Motors Corp. He flatly declared that U. S. industry should return to the six-day week as soon as "the slack of unemployment has been taken up." Said Mr. Sloan: "America today is working a shorter number of hours per week than any other nation-certainly any other involved in war or defense. Output can be increased 20% by working six days a week in place of five." Mr. Sloan also warned that the greatest source of inflationary danger is in the increase in the wage...
...weight for 65,000 university freshmen were either trending downward, or wobbling. At three universities the freshman girls have been reporting later and later first menstruations-a phenomenon which Dr. Mills associates with short stature and warm climate. In short, if world weather keeps warmer, Dr. Mills expects a shorter, sicker, slower population...
...unseen, the waves must find it big enough to get hold of. If the body is much smaller than the wave length, it will slip through like a mosquito through a fishing net. Electron beams are also wave trains, but their wave lengths are thousands of times shorter than those of light. So, in effect, they give scientists a collecting net of far finer mesh...
Concerts will be given every Sunday after supper from 7 to 8 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union. The purpose of the concerts is merely to give pleasure, education being incidental. The programs consist of a brief introductory piece and a symphony or two of shorter pieces...