Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director receives a yearly program for his factory which tells him how much he is to produce, what his product mix is to be, how many workers he can hire and how much he should pay them. He receives allocation orders for the materials and fuels he needs, and there is little he can buy without these orders. Management's job is to produce the planned output--and more if possible--with the inputs given to it. David Granick, "The Red Executive...
Each year the factory director received a program which indicated how much he was to produce, what his product mix was to be, how many workers he could hire, and how much would be available to pay them. In addition, he was assigned allocation orders which, in theory at least, entitled him to buy such scarce materials and goods as he needed . . . His job was to produce the planned output, and as much more as possible, with the resources that were made available to him. Merie Fainsod, "How Russia is Ruled" (1963 edition only...
Katzenbach's happiest operation is the 22-year-old U.S. Armed Forces Institute, a mail-order education factory in Madison, Wis. Proud product of World War II, it has now enrolled more than 5,000,000 students, distributed more than 44 million textbooks. For $5, the shopper can pick any of 6,400 courses, from elementary through college level; if he completes the first course, the rest are free. College-level courses (now the majority) are provided directly from cooperating colleges, but the colleges are still sticky about credits for nonresidents. One captain has taken enough courses...
...Easy. Spurred by these examples, many other firms are conducting studies to seek out their best civilian niche, but they are finding that it is a big turn from a space-age military product to an item for industry or the consumer. One major obstacle is that defense companies have neither the marketing nor the production facilities to switch over smoothly even to limited civilian goods. Such problems only harden the conviction in both industry and Government that the search must be pushed vigorously if the defense industry is to win the battle of change...
...trouble is that the bargains usually turn out to be something quite different. That transistor radio not only did not cost $41.50, but can actually be bought at retail for less than $10; though the ads make the blenders out to be a high-quality product, they are inferior models retailing for $12. By taking on names and trappings that made them sound like legitimate liquidators (who often do sell at distress prices), a new breed of mail order firm has made pseudo liquidating one of the nation's most successful selling rackets, condemned by the Federal Trade Commission...