diminishing returns. occur when hiring new workers causes marginal product to decrease but still remain positive; total product is still increasing, but by not as much as when the previous worker was added.
'It sure almost destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge,' he said. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington - a suspension bridge whose designer also worked on the Golden Gate - had twisted and snapped in about 40 mph winds a little more than a decade earlier. That 1940 collapse was captured on film.
From steel beams to American icon: Golden Gate Bridge celebrates 75 years as an engineering masterpiece. It was built as the country was emerging from the Great Depression, and grew into an icon of America. It was also heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937.