Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made me feel "warm all over" to read that the machine operator laid off by Warner Gear is receiving a $30-a-week unemployment benefit from the United Auto Workers. This was caused by the fact that the money for these benefits comes from a fund established solely by company contributions, and the benefits are paid in accordance with the terms of a Supplemental Unemployment Benefit Plan (SUB) agreed to by Warner Gear and UAW Local...
...Warner Gear Division...
Herm learned that 72 per cent of the movie market is between the ages of 12 and 26. He decided that he should gear his films for the "weekly market"--not for the people "who decided to go to a movie once every three months, study the listings very carefully, and then go to something like Ben-Hur." Then he "took three steps backward, and analyzed. Some of the biggest pictures were horror classics; I added the teenage element for today's audience. Now it's tough for me to shake the kick...
...doing a pretty good business. J. C. Penney, the Industrial Trust & Savings Bank, and the Muncie Federal Savings & Loan have put up new buildings within the past two years. A full work force comes and goes from the Chevrolet transmission plant and the Delco-Remy battery plant. But Warner Gear, maker of auto transmissions and normally Muncie's No. 1 employer, has laid off one-third of its boom-time payroll of 4,500. Many of the city's foundries and tool and die shops that supply the automakers are at least partly shut down. Merchants dependent...
Catgut & Catnap. The six-man crew climbs aboard with its frozen TV lunches, its printed forms (27 of them have to be filled in during and after the flight), and 100 Ibs. or so of survival gear apiece. One pilot, Major Adelbert Gionet, a SAC plane commander for eleven years, carries toothbrush and mouthwash along, as well as a surgical needle and catgut ("If I ever rip any of me, I want to be able to put myself together"), and a flask of whisky. They all carry knives, since a knife has proved to be the most durable and versatile...