Word: substandard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battle of the bottle is one of the business world's trickiest problems. Every year U.S. industry loses more than $1 billion from the absenteeism, accidents and substandard work of 2,000,000 problem drinkers. Not long ago the typical company damned the alcoholic worker as a weak-willed degenerate, and fired him instead of helping him. But no more. Last week in Manhattan, at a symposium sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism, doctors and officials from two dozen blue-ribbon U.S. companies, including IBM, RCA and Esso, agreed that the corporation can cure the alcoholic, told...
...grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content that will give the vintage an exceptional body." Another factor is that the four substandard harvests before this year's harvest had the effect of resting the vines. This summer they surged forward "to make up for lost time...
...Florida to New York, more than 500,000 migrant farm workers, following trails of seasonal planting and harvesting, work and live in scrabbling poverty which Mitchell calls a "national disgrace": average earnings in 1957 of $892, hourly wages as low as 16?, flagrant violations of child-labor laws, substandard housing, dangerous transportation, inadequate sanitation and health facilities. And he thinks the Federal Government should do something about...
...economical' are ignored" in Chinese industry, even suggested that "individually run enterprises" might be set up side-by-side with state enterprises. To woo back disillusioned businessmen, the Red Bank of China has taken the unprecedented step of accepting claims by traders seeking damages for substandard exports. So far, the Bank has seen fit to rule in the trader's favor only a few times...
...high skills. The typical Japanese transistor worker is a deft-fingered, teen-aged girl, accumulating a dowry and delighted to work for $23.34 a month and dormitory space. Furthermore, the Japanese have successfully overcome their greatest drawback, the tendency to export poor-quality goods. The government refuses to license substandard products. Individual Japanese companies are even more exacting. Hitachi, Ltd. of Tokyo, one of the leading makers, recalled an entire U.S. shipment because one plastic case color ran slightly...