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- W1992971374 abstract "Hans' and Sam's life spans - both lived well into their eighties - were almost entirely overlapping, their deaths just a few months apart. There is also the fact that both found themselves (though by utterly different odysseys) out of work in New York City in the latter part of the 1930s: the Great Depression wasn't always that much kinder to America's unemployed than to its immigrant community. (Hans had not long before experienced a harrowing exposure to and escape from Nazism.) In any case, both managed independently to attract the attention of senior researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research, then housed at Columbia University and headed by Arthur Burns. This contact led to gainful employment, lasting until close to the outbreak of World War II when - again through sheer coincidence - each was recruited for wartime duty by the OSS. With the aid of Hans' (unpublished) autobiography, it seems worth fleshing out the NBER experience a bit more, since it was not inconsequential in shaping their respective careers. In their initial assignment, Hans and Sam were responsible for research support on a project, directed by Solomon Fabricant, to calculate and analyze productivity trends in U.S. manufacturing. The pay was a munificent $1800/year - the smallness of that sum interpreted by Hans as the non-pecuniary award for jobs at a prestigious institution. Anyhow, there were monthly increments of $5, though those were doled out, as Hans remembered, with a distinct lack of enthusiasm on the part of Arthur Burns. As the manufacturing productivity study neared its end, an added infusion of money allowed for expanded scope of the work, taking in mining, agriculture, utilities, and transportation. To individuals with hungry mouths, this was good news," @default.
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- W1992971374 title "Hans H. Landsberg and Sam H. Schurr: Reflections and Appreciation" @default.
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