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While working at the Midvale (Pa.) Steel Works in the 1880s, young Taylor made a discovery: it was the workers, not the bosses, who determined the production rate. The workers could go only so fast because, having learned their jobs by rule of thumb, they wasted steps, motion and time. Using a stopwatch, Taylor found that he could determine the most efficient speed for every operation by breaking it into its component parts...
Cricket at Dartmouth. Here is the surrender of the British at Yorktown, here a glimpse of covered wagons heading West, a brassy photo of Dodge City's Main Street in the 1870s. A picture of a squalid "Bandit's Roost" in the New York of the 1880s turns up close to a sedate shot of Fifth Avenue lined with fashionable carriages. Among Davidson's other exhibits: Dartmouth students playing cricket in 1793, women prospectors on their way to the Klondike, Coney Island in the 1890s, child labor in a Virginia glass factory...
...change is most noticeable in Canada. The mean annual temperature of Montreal, said Dr. Kimble, has risen from 42°F in the 1880s to 46°F in 1950. Along the bleak natural boundary between Canada's forests and the barren Arctic, the trees are marching northward. Saplings of tamarack, spruce and birch are appearing where none grew before...
Complete Recoveries. Coxsackie has been studied so seldom that doctors know almost nothing about it. A similar disease was noted in Europe in the 1870s; doctors called it epidemic muscular rheumatism. In the 1880s, an epidemic struck Bornholm Island, off the coast of Sweden; it was dubbed Bornholm's Disease. In 1947, some of the patients in a polio epidemic in the Hudson River town of Coxsackie, N.Y. turned out to have an altogether different virus. The doctors who isolated the new bug named it the Coxsackie virus. The Coxsackie study showed that the virus had many...
...years John Gill and Alton got along, but beneath the tranquil surface, trouble threatened. Like many another small town in southern Illinois, Alton ignores a state law, on the books since the 1880s, and segregates its Negro children in public schools below high-school level...