Word: overhauled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll's Seventh Fleet, ready to turn its carrier-keyed task force toward the first break in Asia's ominous calm (a calm that might well not exist were it not for the Seventh Fleet's presence). There, in drydock for routine overhaul at Norfolk's huge (35 admirals on duty) Navy complex, is the 60,000-ton carrier Forrestal, most powerful ship afloat, preparing to join the fleet in the fall as the Navy's champion of nuclear striking power. She is designed to land and launch bombers, e.g., the Douglas...
...York Central introduced new budget and inventory control systems, divided jobs into staff and line posts, and resulted in a payroll saving of $600,000 annually. Ernst & Ernst's management consultant division charged Pan American a whopping $750,000 for reorganizing its huge Miami engine overhaul base and crew scheduling system, but saved the airline "millions," according to Pan Am's own estimate. Robert Heller & Associates' reorganization of the Post Office Department into 15 regions, and the regions into many districts, eliminated so much duplication that the Postmaster General also saved many millions. Another Heller job slashed...
...Strategic Air Command cost-conscious right down to squadron level. A squadron commander who performs his missions and keeps his costs down is usually running a superior outfit because he has found ways to cut the number of accidents, keep crews healthy, and reduce the time lost in overhaul. A good budgeteer gets his final test when he looks back over his year's estimates to see what kind of planner he really turned...
...even looked ahead to maintenance costs. It believes that railroads should stop spending $70,000 every six years to overhaul a coach. For far less, G.M. could sell the railroad a new coach, install it on the old wheels in 1½ hours...
...rules require that any cylinder found with more than two studs broken must be scrapped or sent back to the manufacturer (in this case Pratt & Whitney), because such a failure indicates that the base may be warped. Another rule requires that the base flanges of all cylinders going through overhaul must be inspected for flatness with delicate instruments...