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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reaction of Ford Personnel Head Harry Bennett to the Board's report was instantaneous: "The N. L. R. B. decision sounds like a page out of the United Automobile Worker [union newspaper]. It's not only offensive but ridiculous. Only the employes who work for the Ford Motor Co. can know how ridiculous it is." On the Board's order to reinstate 29 workers with back pay, the Bennett comment was: "They'll have an awful fight over that one. We won't take those men back." On the Board's order to post...
Some days after the Rightist capture of Gijón two months ago an extraordinary story reached foreign correspondents in Madrid and Valencia: several hundred Dinamiteros, bomb-throwing Asturian miners-whom Rightists hate so much that they are executed whenever captured-had slipped through the mountains by night, wormed their way through 300 miles of Rightist territory, and through another battle line, to reassemble with their officers, safe in Leftist territory...
...York Zoological Park's deliberate William Reid Blair carried to The Bronx the only live platypus ever to leave Australia. It. tried for 49 days to adapt itself to an elaborate man-made labyrinth. Then it died, was stuffed and taken to the Newark. N. J. museum...
Builder. Psychologist Johnson O'Connor, who started with astronomical and mathematical research and was a metallurgist before he became interested in industrial personnel problems, is director of the "Human Engineering Laboratory" in Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken. N. J. From testing 20,000 students, businessmen, professional workers, people in all walks of life, he has concluded that "an extensive knowledge of the exact meanings of English words accompanies outstanding success in this country more often than any other single characteristic which the Human Engineering Laboratory has been able to isolate and measure." His laboratory has just published the Johnson...