Word: dooley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Messrs. Channing Dooley, formerly of Socony-Vacuum Oil, and Walter Dietz, formerly of Western Electric, are not Washington headliners. Charged with running the Training Within Industry program of the War Manpower Commission, their names have been conspicuously absent from all the discussion and argument of the manpower shortage. Nevertheless, Messrs. Dooley and Dietz have been doing...
...experienced into still more responsible jobs. Two years ago they began with only seven first-rate instructors. These seven trained other instructors who in turn went out and taught foremen how to educate men under them to work faster, or to move up to more complicated jobs. Already the Dooley-Dietz organization figures that it has trained 230,000 foremen in over 5,000 plants employing over 5.5 million workers. It is now training some 8,000 additional foremen per week...
Examples of Dooley-Dietz successes...
...Everybody said it takes two weeks to train a new loom tender to tie a weaver's knot. Dooley and Dietz did not believe it. They went to a New England mill loaded with war orders and hard-pressed to find workers. The manager sent for the best loom-tender in the plant. He showed the visitors, with lightning movements of his hands, how a good man does it. Gradually they slowed him down to a speed the eye could follow, made him analyze what each finger does. Hours later they knew exactly what happens when the fingers...
...started her unique career 27 years ago. A farmer's daughter from Keytesville, Mo., with apple cheeks and mischievous eyes, she married Robert Dooley. Shortly Mr. Dooley died, of "typhoid." Lyda married again-a William Gordon McHaffie. He also died, of "typhoid." So did Lyda's third husband, Harlan C. Lewis...