Word: planners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...members of the United Steelworkers of America (C.I.O.) took a step toward preparing themselves for the day of the automated factory. Wedged behind desks built to suit the proportions of their teen-age children, the men (average age: 36) listened intently to 31-year-old Stanley Hauer, instructor and planner of their pilot course, who sat in his shirtsleeves atop his desk as he lectured...
...milch cows and heifers, was a losing proposition. Ike sold his share of the operation to Allen, who switched it to grassland cultivation and replaced the milch cows with Black Angus cattle. Allen employs retired Brigadier General Arthur Nevins, who served Ike as a World War II staff planner, to man age operations; work is done by Farmers Ivan Feaster and Dale Newman...
...Moore's day has been a full and satisfying one, well-paced, productive, and shaped for efficiency. It requires a real planner to conceive and carry out such a day; modern farming is no job for the amateur, the incompetent, the haphazard or the lazy. Today's farmer must invest in tractors and other expensive labor-saving equipment. A poor manager has too much to lose and too many ways to lose...
...Planner Mahalanobis' confidence, however, is not shared by many another Indian, including even some of Nehru's ministers. The Second Five-Year Plan is under a heavy barrage of fire. Mahalanobis, critics found, had underestimated the cost of needed new railroad mileage by a whopping $1.4 billion. Industries Minister Krishnamachari, bemoaning the dearth of skills in India's vast untrained manpower pool, despaired of attaining the plan's steel production goals. "Finding personnel for the new steel plants," he said, "looks like a superhuman task...