Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depression unions looked on the time study men with cold suspicion, believed them to be company spies trying to force the "speedup" (requiring a worker to produce more to earn the same pay) or the "stretchout" (putting a worker in charge of more machines). More often than not the "expert" lacked both technical training and knowledge of the job he judged, and even today some companies ask for trouble by using untrained white-collar workers to make time studies. Not until World War II did unions take the first steps toward cooperation with management on the problem; even then they...
...grooming" during office hours. Neglected or ignored, it will all result in "dowager's hump" as a matter of course, and while this more serious condition is not incorrigible, it is certainly in a graver category than mere slump. Indeed, the whole of Glamour Expert Lilly Dache's book is a warning to women readers not to let a single waking minute tick by without giving close attention to such handicaps and correctives as (to quote from the index): "Bulging eyes, changing appearance of," "Slanting boards, relaxing on," "Forearms, hair on," "Widow, making friends and having...
GOOD CREDIT COUNSELING PROVIDES, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF PERSONAL DEBT, EXPERT AID WITHIN REACH OF ANY HEAVILY INDEBTED FAMILY WITHOUT DEPENDENCE UPON THE COURTS OR CHARITIES...
...cars, one painted light blue for Cambridge, one dark blue for Oxford, the adventurers took off. Eastward they drove to Paris, Vienna, Belgrade and on to Beirut, Lebanon, where they camped for a week in a girls' school, temporarily vacant. "By this time," said Cowell, "we were becoming expert in the roving life. We achieved fabulous success at wheedling sleeping places." Often, on country roads they had simply set up their cots under the stars and slept where they were. In cities they had made motels of many an empty shelter, such as the half-finished garage they occupied...
...saying that I thought all quiz programs were dishonest." The show replied by sending him an entry blank. Taking the precaution to fill out the form, he sent it back with another blistering letter. These tactics, oddly enough, won him a personal interview. Bill announced that he was an expert on literature, but could see that his interviewers found this fairly dull...