Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...
...gets a full day's pay for every 100 miles traveled, and conductors and trainmen on passenger trains for every 150 miles-even though the actual traveling time sometimes takes less than two hours. Under the same set of rules, the 20th Century Limited, between New York and Chicago, must have eight engine-crew changes on a 16-hour trip, forcing the New York Central to pay out a total of 19.2 days' pay to 16 men. Some yard crews get a day's pay for moving a train...
...freights or in the yards who have died or retired. Privately, many railroadmen concede that the U.S. situation is not entirely the unions' fault; U.S. railroads are often run inefficiently, with management clinging to ancient practices as fervently as do the unions. Ben Heineman, chairman of the Chicago & North Western Railroad, would like to put railroad employees on an eight-hour day, pay them for overtime as other industries do-and insist on an honest day's work. Says he: "It would be up to the railroads to schedule things so that there wouldn't be much...
PERT is the baby of the world's largest (1958 billings: $11 million), most prestigious management consultant firm, Chicago's Booz, Allen & Hamilton. When the Navy realized that the thousands of steps involved in development of the Polaris called for an overall plan to spot trouble before it happened, it called...
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still peers with tenderness into Chicago's Harlem; La Plume de Ma Tante maintains its Gallic gallop; My Fair Lady and The Music Man top the list of musical comedies...