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...State Department's policies to congressional committees and the people as thoroughly as he did earlier. But a more important factor is that because of his illness the President has missed the day-to-day development of new problems, and the U.S. has missed his on-the-job decisions...
...have suffered no fatal crashes since 1953. All Air France's first pilots are million-mile men, are paid up to $15,400 a year (more than the President of the Republic). Every mechanic is winnowed through a special four-year course, gets three more years of on-the-job training...
...Tourneau, Inc. maintains full-time chaplains at both its Vicksburg, Miss, and Longview, Tex. plants for on-the-job spiritual guidance; the chaplains also hold weekly services which 85% of the workers attend. Tulsa's Sunray-Mid Continent Oil Co. has employed a chaplain since 1947, and his advice is so heavily in demand that he will soon get a second assistant. The story is the same at San Diego's Solar Aircraft, Dallas' John E. Mitchell Co., Dearborn Stove Co., Ohio's Pioneer Rubber Co. At Solar Aircraft, the program was so well liked that...
...more corporations are changing the editorial content of their magazines in an effort to keep, the employees up to date on all aspects of the company. For example, some 30 monthly tabloids published by the Ford Company for its U.S. plants give detailed reports on union negotiations. On-the-job grievances, once the exclusive domain of the labor press, are now thoroughly aired by companies such as Milwaukee's Line Material Co.,. which devotes an inside cover each issue to employees' complaints and answers. General Electric runs columns of answers to employees' questions on company problems...
...driving north from Rome to the Italian industrial city of Vicenza (pop. 82,000). One was Walter C. McAdoo, 56, a Philadelphian and former pulp-mill executive, and the other was James L. Hockenberry, 54, a onetime agent for Prudential Insurance in Lebanon, Pa. and wartime specialist in on-the-job industrial training. Their mission: to find an Italian plant willing to try out American methods of increasing productivity...