Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best evidence of boom was the swarm of little buyers who jumped into the market last week. Till then, the slow rise of the market had been paced by the high-priced Blue Chips (TIME, June 12). These were still popular, but they were being rapidly shouldered out by cheap stocks. On the peak day all but one of the most active stocks sold for under...
Every evening in Washington, D.C. khaki-clad men, unsteady on their crutches, struggle up a hill leafy with June. Other wounded soldiers, in dark red trousers and jumpers over their pajamas, creak along in wheel chairs pushed by white-uniformed nurses. The slow parade's destination is the grey stone chapel of the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. The wounded men go there to pray for the success of the invasion of Europe and for an early peace...
Incentive Pay. But the deepest quagmire for production was a fantastic incentive pay plan. Colt had always had incentive pay. When mass production came to Colt, it kept the same piecework rates as for the slow handwork. Thus semiskilled filers came to earn as high as $8,200 a year, while the highly skilled toolmakers made as little as $3,000 a year. Result: many workers drew big pay for little work, had no incentive to work harder, fearing rates would be cut if wages, became too fantastic. Colt went through a series of small strikes. The War Labor Board...
...very sensitive indicator of such borderline illnesses as an incipient cold, a run-down condition, a morning after. The machine's chief use in industry is to detect poor working conditions. When all the hearts in a department give out low booms, something is wrong-e.g., slow escape of gas, poisonous chemicals, overwork...
...muscle tone throughout the body, thus impairing the return of blood to the heart. With less blood to pump, the muscles of the left side of the heart lose some of their oomph and sour notes result. The poor heart action adds to that tired feeling, contributes to the slow return of blood...