Word: loadings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...merchant seamen did not have to be urged twice. In the Eagle's hold were 4,525 tons of explosives, a mixed load of 500-lb. and 750-lb. preassembled napalm bombs consigned to U.S. Air Force units in Thailand. Secured on deck were 50 tons of live detonators. While the men, some in their skivvies, were tearing at the lifeboat covers and at work on the davits, Second Mate Robert Stevenson called to the bridge: "Is this for real?" Third Mate Herbert Gunn shouted down: "Cast off and stand clear. There's a live bomb aboard...
...disposal unused manpower. Each House has associates, for example, who have nebulous, unspecified functions but who appear at all House dinners. They are tenured Faculty members and have limited free time, but if each House has twenty, and each professor saw one student, each advisor's load would be cut to twenty-five. If, in addition, Radcliffe accepted the people in the admissions office who want to advise, for example, the Ioad would be lightened still further. (According to one dean, admissions officers, although extremely able, do not have the "right perspective" on the freshman year. Admissions officers claim they...
That is precisely the spirit that the first of the stopwatch-toting efficiency experts, Frederick Winslow Taylor, condemned in 1911 as "the greatest evil with which the working people are now afflicted." In a yard where laborers were loading 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...
Except for a few generalized guidelines, the 150 first-year MBA students will have a curriculum "not bound by [the] legislation" which establishes the regular course load...
...normal first-year course load consists of 12 courses staggered throughout the year Christenson said that instead of 12 faculty members for each of 12 courses, perhaps no-more than eight men will be assigned to each experimental section, thus instituting a more condensed, less compartmentalized set-up with less courses...