Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council works closely with the industry's War Engineering Board, which tackles the larger problems of methods and materials. To save welding, Fisher engineers worked out a system for bending tank armor on the presses that used to stamp out auto bodies, promptly offered it to Chrysler and Ford. G.M. had to make its own machines to bore turrets, so it made some for Ford and Chrysler too. Ford developed a new, better compound for molding ignition parts, which Pratt & Whitney now uses. "Liquid forging," a Ford casting method, releases forging equipment for other work, saves large amounts...
This is a setting for the mystery thriller that faces the B School student every day. It is the foundation of the case method of business education...
...case method of business study has been refined over the past thirty years until it has become a more effective teaching tool than the textbook. A good case combines the suspense of a Hitchcock movie with the pedagogy of Socrates. Teachers no longer labor to illustrate theories with "I knew a guy. . ." stories. In the case system, the illustration is primary, but the principle emerges as the actual situation is discussed. Collection and editing of good cases is, obviously, a difficult...
After the last war, instruction at the B School was divided evenly between cases and textbooks. Soon, however, under the guiding genius of Dean Wallace B Donham, the case method became all important...
Opponents of the birth control referendum seem to be of the opinion that the Catholic Church is opposed to birth control. Actually, the controversy involves not the principle, but the method permitted. To quote the editors of Fortune. "The means permitted by the Catholic Church are based upon what Pope Pius XI referred to (in his Encyclical on Christian Marriage, December 31, 1931) as the circumstances of time, known as the Safe Period method; and to explain how this works, dignitaries of the Church have written, or put their imprimatur upon pamphlets and books that are freely distributed through...