Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much for Nashua, the great bay colt gunning for Florida's $112,900 Gulfstream Park Handicap and a purse that would push his total earnings past Citation's alltime record of $1,085,760. Brookmeade Stable's pace-setting Sailor had more than enough to hold off Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Markus' Mielleux in the stretch drive. Third: Alfred G. Vanderbilt's Find. Nashua, under top weight of 129 Ibs. was never in contention, finished fifth...
...traffic on the avenue. When the Atlanta Crackers' ball game ends, the computer knows it immediately from traffic flow, and tells secondary control boxes at the traffic lights to clear the way for homebound fans. The master control box allows for the side streets too, and does not hold up their traffic more than necessary. While doing all this, it jots down a record of the traffic and what was done to speed...
...live with time studies but profit from them. At one Chrysler assembly plant, for example, time study men watched a worker assemble a rear-view mirror and bracket at a work bench with a hand screwdriver. They replaced this method with an air-operated screwdriver and a fixture to hold bracket and mirror, thus free the worker's hands. Result: production tripled, Chrysler saved $9,000 yearly, and the worker raised his incentive pay while reducing his physical labor...
...swiftest path to success, according to business folklore, is to marry the boss's daughter. Not so, say two University of Chicago research sociologists. Marrying the boss's daughter can actually hold back a rising young executive...
...group will hold a meeting on Wednesday night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...