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...fact, unfolded faster then any plan had predicted. Over one eight-hour period, the 1st Brigade received four major changes to the next day's plan of operations. Half jokingly Lieutenant Colonel Lehr, the Brigade Executive Officer, said, "Plan early, plan twice...
Ford's next act came in September 1926, when the company announced the five-day workweek. As he noted in his company's Ford News in October, "Just as the eight-hour day opened our way to prosperity in America, so the five-day workweek will open our way to still greater prosperity ... It is high time to rid ourselves of the notion that leisure for workmen is either lost time or a class privilege." The five-day week, he figured, would encourage industrial workers to vacation and shop on Saturday. Before long, manufacturers all over the world followed...
...thrown themselves into roles as the country's new defenders. Officials in rural Hardin County, Ohio, purchased a portable decontamination shower and are planning to simulate a terrorist-sponsored train derailment to test the danger posed to the area's local chemical facilities. In Iowa, state officials have held eight-hour seminars with farmers on the possibility of "agroterrorist" attacks on the food supply...
Participants drifted in and out during the vigil’s three eight-hour blocks, which were held at Phillip Brooks House, Appleton Chapel and Harvard Hall...
Career Week will continue with seminars and workshops until Thursday, when it culminates in an eight-hour career forum with more than 100 businesses in Gorden Track. Sponsors expect about 2,400 students to attend...