Word: albina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadow of giant Henry Kaiser's three Columbia River shipyards, the small Albina Engine & Machine Works of Portland has turned out 38 sub-chasers, won three "E" pennants, chopped down absenteeism, kept its 4,500 workers happy. Its secret: slick showmanship in employe relations. Samples...
...Work, No Woo. "Vow Girls," 350 female employes in the yard, have signed a pledge not to date any Albina man who has not perfect job attendance for the week...
Market at the Gate. When workers complained about high vegetable prices. Albina persuaded farmers to bring their produce right up to yard gates at shift-change times. Typical result: Employes bought peaches at $2 a box, which sold at $2.89 elsewhere...
Sale in Shortages. When workers ran short of alarm clocks and washing machines, Albina bought up 800 old clocks, sent as far as St. Louis for a broken-down washing machine, fixed them up and sold them at cost. Other dodges: 800 lilies were sold to workers at cost at Easter; the less pious can buy at any time special Varga-type-girl calendars. An Albina soil expert counsels 1,000 Victory gardeners. Haircut absenteeism was cut by persuading nearby barbers to sloganize "An Albina Man Is Always Next." Albina's own cobbler gives three-day service v. three...
...bounty by the Transvaal government for each baboon tail he produced. He got a job as an electrical engineer for a Swedish company, later moved to the Mojave Desert, where he prospered writing pulp-magazine stories about the jungle. When war broke out, he got a job at Albina. He thought the yard's morale needed pepping up, and one day told Vice President L. R. Hussa...