Word: reabsorbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure that his people are able to translate their research into production-line products. The research men work out problems in the lab, follow them through the production line until all bugs are ironed out. Periodically, production men, many of whom are engineers, are sent back to research to reabsorb the scientific spirit. The intermixing has produced so many workable ideas that sales have shot up from $2,285,000 in 1946 to $45.6 million last year. And with profits of $2,349,000, every employee got almost two months' pay in profit-sharing...