Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spirit. The plant's maintenance staff began repairing in a day breakdowns that formerly took a week to fix. Operators of straightening and threading machines began catching mistakes that they had previously let pass. "There is a new spirit in the mill," says Assistant Works Manager Ray Robinson. Observes the union's Papavero: "Being recognized as people who can make creative suggestions has given the men a certain dignity...
Their silly attempts to fix prices and wages (merely symptomatic treatment for inflation, at best) or to control them with noble-sounding voluntary guidelines will make good copy but, predictably, will fail as before. But we are to be awe-struck at the prestige that sponsors such efforts...
...FIX! BUM CALL! GET THAT SLOB OUTA HERE...
...SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE by Robert A. Smith. 269 pages. American Heritage. $9.95. Unlike those other bicycle books published last year, this tells you nothing about how to fix a Dérailleur gear. It has more important things to report. For example, did you know that bicycle manufacturers invented assembly lines? That pressure from bicycle lobbies caused some of America's "scarcely jackassable" roads to be paved for the first time? In short, if anybody thinks bicycles are having a boom now, Robert Smith, professor of history at California State College, is prepared to prove that...
Another Chapin innovation was the "Buyer Protection Plan," which gives AMC owners a warranty covering every car part except tires. The company will fix any faulty part for free during the first year, and on '73 models offers a second year's coverage for $150. Both GM and Ford emulate that plan on their '73 cars, though neither offers protection that goes so far as AMC's. The AMC warranty won the praise of industry watchers as divergent as Presidential Consumer Adviser Virginia Knauer and Mac Gordon, outspoken editor of the dealer newsletter Motor News Analysis...