Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First on their list are the Harvard yachtsmen, and three Radcliffe girls who can trim the sheets with the best of them have challenged Pete Putnam, commodore of the Harvard dinghy crews, in a race for the Charles River crown...
...Kaiser's other children: Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince Eitel Friedrich (died 1942), Prince August Wilhelm, Prince Oskar, Prince Joachim (died 1920) and Princess Victoria Louise...
...West Coast's biggest pulp and paper maker is also its strongest corporate guardian of labor peace. In 14 years, Crown Zellerbach Corp., which employs 11,000 in 13 paper mills, has not lost a single day's production because of strikes, and has helped to supply the same pattern for the entire Coast paper industry. Last week, in the first of a series of 15 studies of The Causes of Industrial Peace under Collective Bargaining, the National Planning Association told how Crown Zellerbach does...
...first task was to provide workers with security. When times were bad, Crown Zellerbach and the other paper mills developed work-sharing plans that kept employment stable throughout West Coast paper mills; now, with work plentiful, it has cooperated with the workers in setting up health and retirement insurance plans. No coddler of employees, Crown Zellerbach thinks workers should shoulder more responsibility. For example, the average Crown Zellerbach employee works with equipment worth $25,000 (in 1940), and is asked to suggest ways to make it more efficient. At its largest mill the company gets up to 100 suggestions...
...chiefly responsible for the company's notable record is Alexander R. Heron, Crown Zellerbach's thin, scholarly vice president and industrial relations chief, consulting professor of industrial relations at Stanford University. In a recent book, Why Men Work (Stanford University Press; $2.75), the latest choice of the Executive Book Club, Heron explained the program's philosophy. Said Heron: U.S. workers no longer work primarily for food and shelter. "The most potent reason why we work at physical jobs ... is a spiritual force ... the urge in man to realize and express himself as a person." Management, said Heron...