Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...series by beating the Navy Supply School team 7-5 on the Soldiers Field diamond. Trailing 5-0 at the end of 6 1/2 innings, the All Stars suddenly found the range and pummeled the baffling slants of pitcher Neal for seven runs in the last two innings to earn a closely fought victory...
...Sherman Harrison Dalrymple who has been in the middle of Akron's rubber mess ever since 1919, is now the president of the powerful U.R.W. Once a rubber worker himself, Boss Dalrymple knows it is tough, hot, backbreaking work. So he wants his members to work less and earn more...
Dalrymple's method is the six-hour day and a strict quota system which forces every member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
...suspicion on Dean Buck's comment that this class "contains more potential ability" than any other, was shed by the fact that it took fully one-half hour for the fleetest of the Freshmen, Herbert M. Cohen, of Lawrence, to thread his way through the rigmarole of enrollment and earn his free copy of the CRIMSON. Apologies for the generally leisurely progress of the Yardlings were made by the registrars, who nevertheless admitted that the procedure was somewhat more complicated than usual...
George Hibbard '44, left tackle, subbed for Vern Miller last year and saw enough action to earn his letter. This year he earned a regular post with his steady improvement...