Word: adamson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goodyear has been working on the idea as a safe, fast method of travel in overcrowded cities. Last spring, with the Stephens-Adamson Manufacturing Co. of Aurora, Ill., its partner in the new belt company, Goodyear installed its first project: a $75,000 "speedwalk" to carry New Jersey commuters 227 ft. from the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad's Jersey City terminal up an incline to the Erie Railroad station...
Scanlon stayed with the Steelworkers until 1945. In that year, he had spectacular success in the Adamson Company, a small factory in Ohio. Introduction of the plan increased profits 250% and brought bonuses of 54% of wages to the workers. There were two results: the Adamson Company appeared in an article of Life, and Scanlon was invited to M.I.T. to work in the Industrial Relations section, where he is now, dividing his time between teaching and installing the plan...
...days he was the flotilla's Captain Bligh. The pilot, 27-year-old Captain William Cherry, was in command, and Rick-enbacker's friend, Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, 52, was the ranking officer. But the old warbird-dressed in a grey felt hat, business suit, shirt, tie and high-laced shoes-gave orders...