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DIED. Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, co-author, with her brother Frank Gilbreth Jr., of the wry best seller Cheaper by the Dozen, an affectionate account of growing up in a family with 12 children; in Fresno, Calif. Warmly received for the homage it pays to the eccentric Gilbreth parents--who ran a charmingly chaotic household that felt like a "newspaper on election night"--the book spawned a 1950 film and a 2003 remake starring Steve Martin...
...piped East. The unexpected West Coast glut-about 600,000 bbl. per day-arose, says Sohio, because of increased energy conservation and the lower fuel consumption that resulted from the recession. Yet others insist that the glut problem cannot be a surprise to the company. Says O.K. ("Easy") Gilbreth, director of Alaska's division of oil and gas: "Sohio told me five years ago that they were well aware of the surplus...
Died. Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, 93, pioneer efficiency expert and mother of the family described in Cheaper by the Dozen; in Phoenix, Ariz. Lillian Moller was working on the third of her 17 master's degrees and doctorates when she married Frank Gilbreth in 1904. The couple soon collaborated on several books (now considered efficiency primers), not to mention six sons and six daughters. Two of the children, Frank Jr. and Ernestine, wrote Dozen in 1949, describing the management techniques used in the Gilbreth household: a daily assembly call, a weekly family budget session, and a division of labor scheme...
...12½ tons of pig iron each aboard flatcars every day, he taught one worker named Schmidt to load 47½ tons by changing the movements he used to lift the 92-lb. bars and the speed at which he walked to the flatcar.* Taylor's ideas were expanded by Frank Gilbreth, who contended that there must be "one best way" of doing everything. In a book, Cheaper by the Dozen, two of his twelve children recalled the living-room drills at which Gilbreth, fully clothed, demonstrated the proper movements for taking a bath. The modern followers of Taylor and Gilbreth have...
...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...