Word: gilbreth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chosen field, he found very little competition. Nearly all the literature was out of date: for example, the notable 1909 studies of bricklaying by Frank B. Gilbreth, an American engineer and efficiency expert. Among other things, Gilbreth developed an easily adjustable scaffold that eliminated the need to stoop for every brick and helped increase bricklaying performance from an average of 120 bricks an hour...
...Fifty years ago," says Tichauer, "men like Gilbreth produced many solutions, but there were no problems. Today we've got the problems." Even where the problems are now resolutely faced, he claims, they are often approached from the wrong direction. He contends that too often equipment is manufactured today for a person who, in his opinion, does not exist: the average man. The human frame comes in a dismaying range of sizes and configurations, and industry must reach at least a reasonable compromise with this unavoidable fact...
...even a few treelas in the new pyaks outside the city limits) -they could count on a reassuring new introduction to Charlestonese-and a vague understanding of what the natives were talking about: Lord Ashley Cooper's Dictionary of Charlestonese* compiled by Columnist Frank (Cheaper by the Dozen) Gilbreth and published by the Charleston News & Courier, was selling like tiny bay shrimp on the streets of Charleston last week. So popular was the dictionary that Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater was persuaded to insert it, in its entirety, into the Congressional Record...