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Nearly everyone in business talks about improving productivity, but notable breakthroughs are rare. Last year productivity in U.S. manufacturing rose 4% v. 5.8% in 1971. Lately the workers at Kaiser Steel Corp.'s continuous-weld pipe mill at Fontana, Calif., have shown that dramatic gains can be made with only minor changes in methods and machines. In the last three months of 1972 they raised their productivity by a herculean...
...long argued that some Geritol claims were deceptive because the vast majority of people who suffer from vague listless feelings would not be helped by the product. FTC investigations of Geritol began in 1959, but have been stalled in the regulatory mill and the courts ever since. The marathon case ranks second only to the FTC's 16-year effort to get Carter Products, Inc. to stop misleading advertising that claimed its Carter's Little Liver Pills could overcome lethargy and even the blues...
...Labor Department also ordered Bethlehem Steel to revamp seniority rules at its big mill in Sparrows Point, Md. These rules have kept most blacks in relatively menial jobs. If a black managed to get a transfer to a better job, he had to give up the seniority rights he had built up over the years and risk being among the first fired in a layoff. The Government order demands that workers, black and white, be allowed to transfer to other departments and keep all their seniority rights. Those seeking transfers, however, must meet rudimentary requirements showing that they are capable...
...House and Cleveland Heights. Ohio: Sandra J. Kopit of Currier House and Silver Spring. Md.; Patricia E. Lynch of Lowell House and West Babylon. N.Y.; Anne MacKinnon of Adams House and Louisville. Ky.; Debra L. Raskin of Eliot House and Miami. Fla.; Ernestine N. Rathborne of Lowell House and Mill Neck. N.Y.; Marybeth Shinn of North House and New York, N.Y.; Karen L. Taylor of North House and Alexandria. Va.; and. Sally E. Yard of Adams House and Trenton...
...string of fringe benefits. "Adam Smith" points out in Supermoney: "Somebody who has spent 16 hours a day looking at the wrong end of an ox for sub-subsistence on a patch in Poland may not complain at all when he emigrates with a paper suitcase to a steel mill on the South Side of Chicago." The message is quite clear: in the history of American immigration there is but one story. It is told in different languages, but the ending is identical: prosperity and dignity ever after. Like The Emigrants, it is both art and politics, both splendid documentary...