Word: standardize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knows how to gauge the productivity of such workers-or how much money they should get. On the standard measures, it often appears that white-collar employees drag productivity down. If only production-line workers are counted, productivity increased at an annual rate of 3.7% since 1947; if all workers are counted, the gain drops to 2.9%. Actually, says Wernick, the reverse may be true, since technical experts often make possible productivity increases. Moreover, how can industry measure the work of scientists who design a new machine or a new product that does not show up in the output figures...
...industry, which is having its full share of recession troubles, last week added still another, left over from a time of shortage. In Alexandria, Va., a federal grand jury indicted 29 of the industry's companies-among them: Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than...
...Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower. His successor, Mortimer, was chairman of the star-studded Advertising Council from 1947 to 1950, headed the United Community Campaign fund last year. Under him, each General Foods' sales dollar has brought a pretax profit of 10? v. 7? for its chief competitor, Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn coffee. Royal Gelatin, etc.), and General Foods' stock has risen from $30 in 1954 to $57 last week...
...nuclear power. To be built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. at Camden, N.J., N.S. Savannah will cost $40 million by the time it is completed in 1960. will serve as the model for private shippers who are increasingly anxious to get into the field. Cities Service. Gulf Oil and Standard Oil (N.J.) are all interested, and the Maritime Administration hopes to have the first nuclear-powered tanker in the water by 1961. One possible formula to help private industry get into the new field: the U.S. Government will pay the difference between conventional and nuclear vessels, at least until costs...
...cool. There are also body-geography and sexual-topology students-erotic spelunkers of a sort. Since the modified screenplay distantly related to From Here to Eternity, fornication in the surf has become the desideratum, so that the brief tussle in the sea foam has now become a standard image of suggestion, and when the waves keep on breaking in, all by themselves, you know what's happening. Among the orgasm symbols are the high-wind group, the fire group, and the rocket or levitation group. Fireworks are popular and have been deemed sufficiently refined even for Grace Kelly films...