Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enter Labor. Christopher took his plan to stocky, clear-thinking Curt Murdock, president of Packard Local 190 (U.A.W.-C.I.O.), a unioneer who realizes that the only way to win the war is with more and faster production. In a two-month series of confabs, the two men pounded the original idea into the "Work to Win" program. Chief program points: 1) a speedup of machines rather than men; 2) individual recognition for work well done; 3) whoop...
...being considered by company engineers. Among the ideas in use is one which combined boring and reaming operations on one machine, thus frees another machine for additional work; another shifted assembly operations so that nine men and two sets of tools can do certain engine assemblies 50% faster than 14 men with 14 sets of tools...
Forget the plot; it is simple but manages to dull a potentially A-1 musical. If Crosby were left to his singing, and Astaire to his dancing, the show would move faster. The one spark of originality, a holiday inn (Berlin's contribution we are told), was snowed under by a standardized development leading to the inevitable clinch...
Jaakko urges that all new Freshmen interested in running, track or cross country, come out immediately. "Even if you do not make Varsity," he said, "you will run many seconds faster and be in better shape next spring. There are many fellows, too, who have never run before they came to Harvard, and then they make very good runners...
...problem is how to carry them. Before the war most operators bought only enough equipment to keep things going. Now they could use 33,500 new 40-passenger buses or 19,500 new trolleys-and can get neither. Worse still, extra-heavy loads are wearing bus tires at a faster-than-expected rate with no hope of any volume replacements before December...