Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four years ago Baker Bedrich Cech's daughter had slipped out of the country alone to marry an American G.I. Because of her flight, Bedrich's bakery was confiscated. The old man went to work for his son Marian, the foreman of a local lumberyard, and came to realize that the lumberyard itself provided an ideal avenue of escape for himself and his family. A flatcar of lumber due for export, he reasoned, could easily be loaded in such a way that a space of two cubic yards would be left free inside. Muffled within such a rolling...
...Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary, Nathan Leopold, 49, partner in the notorious Loeb-Leopold "thrill murder" of Bobby Franks in 1924, got word that his brother Foreman, who died this month, had cut him out of his will. Foreman, who with his family changed his last name to Lebold, left a $400,000 estate to his widow...
This man is Jimmy Sugrue, HAA field foreman since 1937, in charge of getting new goal posts in place before the next weekend's game. For his crew it is a good half day's job. For the HAA it is now a $75 expense...
...every operation, costs were slashed. Says Franz: "I'd go in to a foreman and say 'How's everything?' and he'd say 'Fine.' Then I'd say 'Fine? What the hell does that mean? How're your costs?' " (C.F. & I. was its own prime contractor on its new pipe plant, saved an estimated $1,500,000 in fees by doing...
...emotionally disturbed employee can mess up a whole department, and if he is a supervisor or executive, his personal problems may extend their effects even further. Industrial disputes frequently arise or become aggravated by the mental ill-health of a foreman or department head...I am not limiting my remarks to psychotic patients in our state hospitals...Mental ill-health also includes such common problems as perennial troublemaking, goldbricking, inability to take or give orders, absenteeism, accident-proneness, undependability, querulousness and suspiciousness. In fact, these 'minor complaints' are its principal manifestations...