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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fokker stock, General Motors turned over to Fokker the capital stock of the Dayton-Wright Co., assets of which consist mainly of Wright Field, Dayton Aviation Field adjoining the famed but abandoned McCook Field (Wartime Army aviation center) and also a large number of aviation patents.* Following so closely upon General Motors' acquisition of a 25% interest in Bendix Aviation Corp., makers of airplane accessories (TIME, April 22), the Fokker transaction emphatically located General Motors in the aviation field...
Back in the dull, depressed days of 1921 President Warren Gamaliel Harding appointed a committee to look into the matter of unemployment, to make a report upon this then burning question. When last week the Unemployment Committee announced its findings, neither President Harding nor unemployment remained a U. S. problem. It was primarily a Hoover Committee that made the report (President Hoover was Committee Chairman while Secretary of Commerce) and prosperity, not unemployment, was the burden of its story. Called upon to view with alarm, the Committee concluded by pointing with pride...
This general conclusion was based upon the following specific points...
...purchasing power of wages rose 2.1% a year. So, while prices are slightly lower than in 1922, purchasing power of wages is almost 15% greater, thus making the wage-earner's pay-envelope extend comfortably beyond the bare necessities of life. The committee complimented U. S. industry upon its wisdom in realizing that its profits could best be based, not on an attempt to go back to pre-War wages or to maintain inflation prices, but upon increasing consumption through a policy of "low costs and high wages." Production and Consumption. Since 1922 primary production has increased about...
...refuse to be spit upon" said a Dean...