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...coveted shares. The reason for all the enthusiasm: since Palmer, a New Zealand-born corporation lawyer, joined Ready Mixed as a director in 1945, the company has expanded into eight foreign countries, now controls 186 concrete plants, 40 quarries and a Malayan tin mine. Last year Ready Mixed doubled its profit to $2,400,000. Placid Chairman Palmer, who meticulously limits himself to an eight-hour workday and refuses to take papers home, intends to maintain the same headlong expansion into any area "where labor is costly...
...oarsmen had first scheduled a contest with a local boat club, but when that was cancelled, they rescheduled a race with Cornell. Because of a cut-back in its budget, however, the Harvard Department of Athletics could not finance the eight-hour bus trip to Ithaca, and the individual rowers, together with the Friends of Harvard Rowing, had to pay for it themselves...
...fragmented by a court decree in 1911, before he retired in 1942 mapped the overseas operations that made the company a world power in oil, but spared enough attention from his headlong expansion of Standard to pioneer in worker representation on refinery councils and (in 1915) the eight-hour...
...first Johnson, George F. Johnson, stepped in in 1895, a year after the company was formed. He started complete and free medical care for all employees in 1919-a policy that continues today. In 1916 E-J was one of the first U.S. companies to go on an eight-hour day. The company has built or provided mortgages for about 3,500 homes sold to employees at cost. During the Depression, the company saw to it that at least one member of every family worked two days a week, during World War II sent servicemen-employees their annual bonus...
...Paul Bunyans came to cut the timber and mine the ore of the rugged north. It was here that Henry Ford, messiah of the machine, swung the U.S. mass-production revolution on his assembly lines and broke the bonds of the workingman's poverty by instituting the $5 eight-hour...