Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Carolina, jammed the stadium. The grimmest man present was big Rex Enright, Carolina's coach. His team had lost every game this season. If he lost on Big Thursday, he and everybody else in South Carolina knew that he'd better begin looking for another job. Before the end of the first quarter, Enright's team was behind, 13-0, and the Clemson stands were calling for their boys to pour...
...game's end his players carried Enright off the field on their shoulders. His job seemed safe, even if Carolina didn't win another game all year...
Chain Reaction. A small problem often leads to much bigger ones. For example, the job of streamlining International Harvester's tractors led to designing a distinctive new building (1,125 have been built) in which to sell them...
Loewy's first job for the Pennsylvania Railroad was designing a trash can. That was successful, so he went to work blueprinting a new locomotive. To find out what was wrong with old engines, Loewy rode them for thousands of miles, noting such things as the absence of a toilet for the crew (he installed one), and the fact that smoke sometimes obscured, the engineer's vision (he devised a vane to deflect it). He wound up designing not only new locomotives but whole new trains for Pennsylvania (Broadway Limited, "Spirit of St. Louis," The General, Liberty Limited...
...legs, and installed the first non-rusting aluminum shelves ever to be used in a refrigerator. The Coldspot became a single smooth, gleaming unit of functional simplicity-and with it Sears' sales shot up five-fold by 1936. Loewy had been paid only $2,500 for the job (and had spent nearly three times that in expenses), but Sears was glad to pay him $25,000 for his next job. His reputation was made...