Word: worker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...problem of training the ignorant Soviet worker in the technique of specialized industrial production is portrayed at the Fine Arts Theater this week in "Men and Jobs," the latest release of the Amkino Corporation from U.S.S.R. studios. The film is a rather drawn-out disconnected affair which develops the following thesis: eager but uncomprehending peasant workers cannot equal the productive efficiency of America because they do not understand the intricate new machinery with which they work. If they can be educated to use the machinery properly, however their added enthusiasm will eventually make the Soviet output even greater than that...
...Simplified, strengthened, deflated and purified," Il Duce said, "Italian business holds itself ready to withstand yet further trials." The withstanding machinery consists in part of decrees protecting the worker from either wage cuts or upping of retail prices, except in specific cases by assent of the State. Italian farm prices have thus far been supported by import quota restrictions. Tuberculin tests are invoked to exclude much foreign cattle. The Fascist Press ceaselessly thunders, "Buy Italian!" Speculation on Italian stock exchanges is now checked with such rigor that prices and trading have long been stagnant...
Brain Energy. Little known facts about brains pointed out by Harvard's Stanley Cobb: the brain of a sedentary brain-worker uses up more energy when he works than do his legs when he exercises outdoors; blood flows through the brain arteries faster than through any part of the body except the eye retina; the pressure of cerebrospinal fluid on the brain is five or six times greater when a man lies prone than when he stands upright; "it seems probable that the brain has a rather high metabolism when compared to other organs or to the body...
...will carry out the great work of reorganizing the economic life of our people by means of two great four-year plans: 1) salvation of the German farmer, with the object of maintaining the nourishment and therewith the vital basis of the nation; and 2) salvation of the German worker by a powerful and comprehensive attack on unemployment...
Famed Historian David Saville Muzzey compiled a list of 50 citizens who "on a basis of their contributions to public life" would find prominence in U. S. history books of 1983. Only woman listed: Authoress Edith Wharton. Reconsidering, he mentioned Social Worker Jane Addams. Omitted "advisedly" was Calvin Coolidge...