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Sign of Weakness. When McMahon sat down, colleagues rushed over to pump his hand, largely perhaps because he had reflected the general urge to do something, or at least to propose a plan to do something...
Bargain Sales. Last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's government at last set up a committee to study means of reducing unemployment. There were two general solutions: pump-priming, and deflation. Pump-primers wanted the government to spend part of the reserve in the Bank Deutscher Länder (similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve) for critically needed housing, and thus re-employ hundreds of thousands of construction workers. The other solution was to let the goods pile up on shelves until prices dropped to the point where customers could buy more. But the trade associations refused to let prices...
...tense examination room, stacks of blue-books, the stern-faced proctors; he saw the terse sadistic questions: "Identify . . ." "Discuss and cite examples. . . ." "Elaborate, in essay form . . .", "Write briefly on three of the five. . . .", he felt the panic as the three hours skidded by while he struggled to pump out answers from an empty mind. Vag breathed hard, clutched the book nervously, and wrote "Chapter 10" so hard at the top of his reading notes that he broke the pencil point. He plunged into the reading ". . . The clue to the architecture of the effect or patterns is the dominance relation between...
...management should have a personnel department which uses psychological techniques in hiring workers and keeping them happy. One important way: providing a channel for opinion to flow from workers to management. Opinion, says he, is like water-it flows easily downhill, but it takes a lot of pressure to pump it up. Modern workers get a cataract of managerial opinion in bulletins and house organs, but only a thin dribble of their opinion is forced up to management...
...headquarters in the vast I.G. Farben building in Frankfurt, correspondents busily buttonholed U.S. officials and tried to pump them for news. Word had got out that High Commissioner John J. McCloy had received a new directive from Washington on U.S. policy in Germany. "I don't see what all the fuss is about," snapped one of McCloy's top aides. "There's very little in the directive that you couldn't have written yourself...