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...workers see the end product of their efforts. Chrysler has sent employees from supply plants to assembly plants so they can see where their parts fit into the finished product. The company has also put assembly-line workers into inspection jobs for one-week stints. Said one welder: "I see metal damage, missing welds and framing fits that I never would have noticed before...
Cromn is currently on his one-week annual vacation sailing of the coast of Maine. His two assistants also said they were unavailable to attend the Council meetings...
...Morning Telegraph was so valuable a guide, in fact, that every day 50,000 readers plunked down a dollar for its thoroughbred information. No more. Last week after a nasty labor dispute and a one-week strike, the Telegraph appeared on the nation's news stands for the last time...
Fishwick, a former attorney, is a prudent cost cutter; he has trimmed by almost one-third the number of reports that executives file, thus saving $520,000 a year-the price of a pair of new locomotives. But he has not skimped on employee training. All upper-and middle-ranking employees must complete a one-week computer course, and all salesmen will take a one-week course taught by Psychological Associates, Inc., St. Louis consultants who claim to build "persuasive communications skills...
Blue Gem. A few days later, Hoover ordered Sullivan to take two weeks' leave. Sullivan wrote back that a one-week vacation was all he needed. The memo came back inscribed with what is known in the FBI as a "blue gem"-a handwritten note from the director. (Hoover is the only person in the FBI who uses blue ink, so that his messages are instantly recognizable. Other FBI officials use pencil, in part because if they approve a memo moving up the chain of command and then Hoover inks in his disapproval, they can erase their judgment...