Word: foremans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Mercier, who began as a transit-man and roadmaster's clerk, Russell trained as an engineer at Stanford, started with Southern Pacific as timekeeper for a road gang, rose to assistant foreman of a section gang. As a civil engineer, Don Russell helped boss the double-tracking of Southern's line across the mile-high Sierra Nevadas, worked up through roadmaster, trainmaster and assistant division superintendent to boss of the Los Angeles division in 1939. There he caught the eye of Mercier, who made him his assistant in 1941, groomed...
...again the next morning, and by this time the group may have grown to 25 or so, with a few vice presidents. But in the plant the officers will step aside; it's the foremen's show. I'll meet every foreman and his assistant, shake hands, inquire after their families. Wednesday night we'll have a family dinner, as we call it, and all the heads of the company will be there. It won't be boisterous; we're all business. I'll give them a little talk about things going...
...constantly referred to as the "collitch kid" and the well-read foreman began to rib O'Neil for his part in Crimson football fortunes. The boss finally decided that gridiron reversal contributed to making O'Neil a poor worker, so he made a threat...
West, an 18-year-old son of a paper-plant foreman, who quit Georgia Tech because he found nothing but "hard, cold facts of engineering," looked like a church -ly Frank Sinatra, in his Paisley bow tie and purple jacket, his big ears enlarged in shadows on the blackboard behind him. He read his long text (Luke 9: 20-27: ". . . And be rejected of the elders . . ."), and in a businesslike manner proceeded to expound it-the job of youth today. "Unless we, the young people of today, go to work, we're going to lose in the end. This...
...Republic Steel's Canton, Ohio plant, when a disgruntled worker was told to hurry, he snapped back: "Why should I knock myself out for Republic? They make $75 out of every billet of steel and I get nothing." His foreman, Chris Cutropia, who was both forewarned and forearmed, took the worker aside, and convinced the griper that the company would be lucky to make 75? a billet. Reporting the incident to his superiors, Foreman Cutropia added: "Three months ago I wouldn't have been able to say anything...