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...necessarily, says Paradiso. "There is a much tighter relationship between inventory and sales than we have ever seen before." Where it once took a manufac turer months to shift his inventory position-either because he was top-heavy with goods or could not quickly reorder -today's manufacturer has new methods and machines for inventory control that enable him to keep his inventories tight, move fast when he wants to make a change. In the past, says Paradiso, inventory tended to lag about six months behind sales; today it can be adjusted in a matter of days. "What happens...
Chemical companies often call for molds or bacteria to make such things as citric acid for soft drinks. Airplane manufac turers order fungi to test the mildew proofing of their airplanes. Three strains of mutated Staphylococcus aureus, a con tribution from Russia, are used for screen ing anti-cancer drugs...
...believe that the PHS would have good news about it. The in vestigating team did not repeat the whole testing procedure, which takes three months. Instead, it quizzed the technicians in the testing rooms. Team members not only again pored over the bulky "pro tocols" (elaborate reports from manufac turer to Washington, showing the result of every phase of every test); they also leafed through the underlying data...
...headed by WPB executive officer John D. Small, is the coordinator for eleven sub committees. All are charged with the job of guiding industry back to civilian goods manufac ture, while maintaining a war output sufficient to insure the defeat of Japan...
...where he is expected to start sometime after Labor Day, Ed McGrady will receive from $15,000 to $20,000 a year for smoothing over labor difficulties developing in RCA's three fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking...