Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Romance & Adventure. Schrotel came up the hard way. Son of a railroad car inspector, he was on his way to get a job as a dishwasher in the lean year of 1934 when his eye was caught by an announcement of exams for new police recruits. Schrotel passed easily, soon was assigned to night patrol duty in a scout car, and fell in love with his job. He still talks unabashedly of his "genuine thrill at the romance and adventure the position offered...
Competition has turned the school market into a hot battle to sell at the lowest price, which plays right into VerMeulen's speciality: cost cutting through automation. A strapping Michigan Dutchman, VerMeulen joined AmSeCo as an upholstery inspector upon his graduation from Michigan's Hope College. He decided early that he liked the company so well that he wanted to be president of it. Three years ago he at last succeeded Harry M. Taliaferro (pronounced Tolliver), who had been president for 29 years...
...greatest asset is its reputation as a quality producer. Assiduously cultivated in the company's advertising ("The Royalty of Television Sets"), the reputation is deserved-though Zenith does not get into the really expensive custom field. Every sixth worker on the Zenith production line is a quality inspector, and TV sets that have already been cleared for shipment are pulled back at random for further testing. Six years ago, when most other makers of TV sets began switching heavily to printed circuits, which were cheaper to make but difficult to repair, Zenith stayed with easier-to-fix hand-wired...
...trial, is sentenced to five years at hard labor. The new pastor (sensitively played by Michael Gwynn) arrives. At once an official campaign of petty harassment gets under way. When the congregation gathers to greet its new leader, the police perfunctorily break up the party; church buildings, the inspector coldly explains, are licensed for religious education, not for social gatherings. When the pastor refuses to sign an official peace petition, hoodlums decorate his sidewalk with a political expletive: WARMONGER! When he visits a farmer who persists in attending church, he finds an official sound truck sitting outside...
...Wagner's "inertia, indecision and drift." He cleaned out his desk, patted his .38-cal. Police Special, and walked out of headquarters with his eyes glistening. The mayor was ready with a successor, an oldtime cop and Kennedy protégé with a fine record, Chief Inspector Michael J. Murphy, 47. Few of Kennedy's friends could fault Bob Wagner. Taking one consideration with another, he had been a long time in applying the kind of iron that Steve Kennedy made a golden rule...