Word: gilbreths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (237 pp.)-Frank B. Gllbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey-Crowell...
Like father Day in Life With Father, Dad Gilbreth pretty much ran things his way; but there most of the resemblance ended. Whenever Dad Gilbreth, returning from a trip, turned in at the sidewalk of his Montclair, N.J. home, he whistled "assembly call"; it brought freckle-faced kids from upstairs, basement, backyard and even the next street. Sometimes his signal meant that he wanted to take everybody for a ride in the big Pierce-Arrow. "How do you feed all those kids, mister?" folks would yell when the car had to stop for an intersection. His favorite answer: "Well, they...
...Facilities for disabled are listed in another book, out this week: Normal Lives for the Disabled (Macmillan, $2.50) by Edna Yost in collaboration with Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth who, with her husband, late Dr. Frank B. Gilbreth, developed many industrial jobs for handicapped men after World War I. * For those who need it, the Institute offers job training. There are over 2,000 kinds of jobs that handicapped people can fill, 275 of them for people with arm injuries. The value of such people to industry is beginning to be appreciated (TIME, June...