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During 1943, a total of 3,752 strikes took place in the U.S., involving more than 13 million man-days of labor.

Equality and Conformity Are Really the Whole Point 2011

During 1943, a total of 3,752 strikes took place in the U.S., involving more than 13 million man-days of labor.

Equality and Conformity Are Really the Whole Point 2011

I think mostly I could produce a better-than-print quality ebook in about two man-days.

Making Light: A music exec's take on the Macmillan/Amazon throwdown 2010

Given the many hundreds of man-days (and women-days and child-days) that have been spent in the field on horseback and on foot by our hunting fraternity, the LACS have precious little to celebrate as they contemplate the unenforceability of their rotten piece of spite.

Archive 2008-01-06 2008

Given the many hundreds of man-days (and women-days and child-days) that have been spent in the field on horseback and on foot by our hunting fraternity, the LACS have precious little to celebrate as they contemplate the unenforceability of their rotten piece of spite.

Discombobulated Vigilantes 2008

For high quality you'd want at least two people proofing each page; so, for SF paperbacks of the 1960s, around 200 pages * 252 seconds * 2 people = 28 man-hours, or 3.5 man-days assuming eight-hour workdays, just for proofing not counting scanning, or adding formatting mark-up, or re-proofing after the mark-up is added to make sure it displays correctly on various ebook platforms.

Making Light: A music exec's take on the Macmillan/Amazon throwdown 2010

Using the higher figure, we estimate that the Sovereign must have produced about 12 horsepower per crew man, or about 287 man-days surplus per man per day.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009

During the construction of bridge, 65,000 man-days have been generated directly and indirectly.

Government to carry opposition along in development process: Omar 2009

The surplus of mechanical energy gained would thus be 26 horsepower-hours, or the equivalent of 26 man-days per man-day.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 5~ Steam~ Key to the Industrial Revolution 2009

Running 24 hours a day, this ship could thus generate about 240 horsepower-hours or 240 man-days per man per day.

Energy and Society~ Chapter 3~ Inorganic Energy Sources~ Wind and Water 2009