Word: adamson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the city room of the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News last week marched a strange procession. In the lead was Dr. William Bluford Adamson, wearing brown alligator cowboy boots and carrying a case not much bigger than a portable typewriter. He was followed by his wife, two medical technicians and two nurses. In the newspaper's morgue, Cardiologist Adamson opened his box and unveiled an electrocardiograph...
Printer-Foreman Bill Meroney was part of a second procession: Reporter News workers having their hearts checked. Mrs. Adamson made sure that Meroney's questionnaire was completed ("Has anybody in your family ever had heart disease? Have you ever had rheumatic fever or scarlet fever?") After a blood-pressure reading, a nurse taped electrodes to Meroney's wrists and Dr. Adamson taped another pair to his ankles. Then the doctor switched on the ECG machine and got a reading of the electrical impulses generated with Meroney's heartbeats. He appeared to have a sound heart...
...Prototype. In 1945 Scanlon for the first time took the bits and pieces of what he had tried out in dozens of companies and put them together at the Adamson Co. of East Palestine, Ohio, a small maker of welded steel tanks. Complained Owner Cecil Adamson: "I give the union everything it asks for. But still the shop isn't working well. Let's get together and work out something so that you'll get something and I'll get something." Joe went into the plant, checked the books, and determined a "normal" labor cost...
...with workers' suggestions. Welders who had stood around waiting for materials began helping to unload. Workers formerly indifferent to substandard work turned out by slackers began raising Cain: it cut down their bonus. Employees and executives became a team working toward a mutual goal. After a year, the Adamson Co. was five times as profitable as in the old days; even after sharing the productivity savings 50-50, management still reaped twice as much income. As for the workers, a union veteran of many picket lines told Scanlon: "Joe, I can't fight here...
...spring's theatricals included "Face the Music," the Hasty Pudding Show written by C. M. Churchill '30 with music by H. C. Adamson '30. The HDC gave the American premiere of Galsworthy's latest London hit, "'The Show...