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...Holt; $3), the latest and most understandable book on the cycle theory. Its authors are balding, professorial Edward R. Dewey, 51, executive director of the Foundation for the Study of Cycles* and economic consultant to such companies as Air Reduction Co., Inc.-who supplied the data; and Edwin F. Dakin, biographer (Mrs. Eddy) and public-relations man for planemakers, steelmakers and shipbuilders-who put it into readable, layman language...
...doing so, Dakin so simplified the complex theory of cycles that some hard-headed businessmen and conservative economists may dismiss the whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...
...Trouble with Women. Dr. Dakin found that, contrary to rumor...
...real trouble with women, Dr. Dakin believes, is mental and emotional mal adjustment to industry. Unused to machinery, they are easy prey to suggestions that machines are bad for their "delicate nervous systems." They expect sympathy and special attention. They are easily up set by troubles at home. They use muscles tensely from fear of failure or excessive determination to do well...
Saving the Women. To keep Lockheed women at work, Dr. Dakin now has a Woman's Clinic far removed from the plant's first-aid headquarters. To the Clinic comes any woman whose complaint "is thought by the patient, her supervisor or her doctor to be due to the cumulative effect of her work." Her most successful remedies: 1) a transfer (e.g., giving a fat girl a sedentary job); 2) arranging for variety in monotonous work; 3) lessons in avoiding muscle strain; 4) reassurance that the job in question does not cause sterility...