Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat Japan faster...
...speed of the two rotors (either or both), Killer's "Hillercopter" is driven and steered by the top rotors alone. Advantages claimed by Hiller: his machine is much easier to pilot, can be parked in a garage by folding the rotor blades, will eventually fly farther and faster, because of its lighter construction, than other helicopters. He said he had already flown his 90-h.p. model at 100 m.p.h...
Librarian Rider thinks their scheme is already obsolete. For microfilms must be boxed, catalogued and stored like books. Preservation is also a problem: film wears out far faster than paper...
...real production stranglehold is the "quota." The quota started as a scheme to beat the hated production speed-up which workers suspect in Akron's piecework system. In the past, faster work often meant that the company would cut the payrate per piece. Thus, to make certain they do not work harder for less money, workers in many departments set their own quotas. This has been brought to such scientific control that many pieceworkers collect the same amount in their paychecks-down to the last cent. For long, companies approved the quota-it kept skilled employes from burning themselves...
Outblitzed, Bewildered. Ike Eisenhower's push had developed faster than the Germans had reckoned. Omar Bradley's tankmen and truck-borne infantry -a new-formed Third Army-had stunned the enemy again & again with swift, piercing strokes...