Word: turnoveritis
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About one-third of U. S. motorists have never owned a new car, and for every new car a dealer sells he generally expects to have to handle one and a half to two used cars. When the used car market bogs down, dealers therefore are virtually frozen. Normally there...
What alarmed Parliament were such statistics as these, widely circulated in the British press: From 1934 to 1937 the turnover from football pools rose from ?10,000,000 to ?40,000,000. Mathematical odds against the correct forecast (first prize) are estimated as high as 14,000,000-to-1...
"Under better physiological conditions, with a simplified cockpit and an enlarged crew, there would be greater safety, fewer pilot errors, fewer crashes, less loss of life and equipment and great revenue from a more confident public. There would be a less rapid turnover of pilots and a longer useful service...
In the business of selling advertising time and space, 1937 was a nip & tuck race between a spring spurt and a fall recession. The spurt won by a few whiskers, and the year's $928,300,000 turnover was 5.7% ahead of the 1936 volume, according to tallies made...
Even more significant was the turnover among Mr. Stout's eight associate editors. On New Year's Day, Graeme Lorimer, George Horace's elder son and the last Lorimer left in the Curtis Publishing Co., resigned to continue writing-with his wife -stories like After Dark, which...