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...U.A.W. knew that productivity had fallen. But the unionists insisted on the raise anyway. Bundy's president and majority stockholder Wendell Anderson, son of one of the founders of the Ford Motor Co., told them how they could get it: work on an incentive wage plan. Said the U.A.W., which hates such plans: no go. After much haggling, both sides compromised. The U.A.W. got its 18½? raise; it also got an incentive plan with a sugar-coated name: Cost Savings Sharing Plan. Bundy got around the union's deep-seated objections to incentive plans, which it feels...
Borrowing the idea from a Long Island fisherman, they built something that looked like an overgrown rowboat, but had an inboard motor powerful enough to fly a small airplane. The Cuttyhunkers' "bass boats" cost about $4,500 apiece, but in them fishermen could profitably engage in a sport that was just as delicate and more dangerous than trout fishing. The trick was to avoid the submerged rocks, and to get at the fish at the right time-either by casting or trolling by moonlight. It was like an old-fashioned coon hunt on salt water...
Operation Field Trip, unit, Geography 35a, Professor Erwin Raisz Commanding, made a navigational fix to the faultless second last week for the rendezvous point of the motor transport deep in the wilds of Winchester. Officer and men were to establish contact from different directions. The course being Mapmaking, they couldn't miss...
...more the committees studied the power requirements, the worse the figures looked. They feared that they would need five, maybe eight, motors of 250,000 horsepower each (biggest existing motor, 87,000 h.p.). These and lesser motors might bring power needs well above two million kilowatts. NACA was nearly stumped. It might have to split up its Buck Rogers testing center. There just wasn't enough available power in any one place to run the fabulous motors...
Died. Berna Eli ("Barney") Oldfield, 68, daredevil of the dirt track at the dawn of the motor age, first auto racer to drive a mile a minute, whose name gave a U.S. generation a synonym for speed; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Beverly Hills, Calif...