Word: output
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Train's idea in "The Hanging of the Angel" is very neat and the execution rather too full. This is certainly better writing than our average professional output. On the other hand, Mr. Hamblett's idea is better than his method; an excellent concluding sentiment, 'let the energy which might be spent in hating--turn to changing the conditions...
...disposition was genial. He was emotional and sensitive, and at the same time sympathetic and unselfish. Ambitious and energetic, he demanded of himself a prodigious output. He entered into all the work of the Department with loyalty and devotion...
...shipping (exclusive of enemy loss) during the war at over 11,000,000 tons, of which 6,000,000 tons were lost in 1917, and estimates Great Britain's net loss since the ruthless submarine warfare began at 1,300,000 tons--that is, the losses have exceeded the output by that amount. On the other hand, there was a welcome gain relatively in the last quarter of 1917 in shipbuilding...
...British need and the American are exactly alike. It has been told and reiterated and emphasized we know not how often by the United States Shipping Board, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, the War Department and commercial bodies that feel the pinch of overseas transport shortage. Yet the total output of all the shipyards in America and the allied countries does not come up to the requirements for providing the nations and their armies with such supplies as are considered necessary to guarantee and expedite the wining...
Says the British First Lord of the Admiralty. "Despite glowing reports in the American press, and great as the effort of that country doubtless is, there is no doubt a considerable time must elapse before the desired output is obtained." But so far is he from intending disparagement of the United States in comparison with the United Kingdom that he says in the latter there has been a serious drop in the rate of ship production, that owing to labor unrest and strike difficulties the men in the yards are not working as if the life of the country depended...