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...lawgiver is unknown, but the saying is an old joke among engineers. * John Dos Passes, in U.S.A., wrote an epitaph for Taylor: "On the morning of his fiftyninth birthday, when the nurse went into his room to look at him at fourthirty, he was dead with his watch in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...filled the shop with college students with stopwatches and diagrams, tabulating, standardizing. ... on the morning of his fiftyninth birthday, when the nurse went into his room to look at him at fourthirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Last of an American | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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