Word: rewardable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ages. One Western Air Lines time-motion expert, for instance, has figured out that on an 85-minute flight with 122 people aboard, a stewardess averages no more than 23 seconds with each passenger. Whereas TWA used to dangle its transcontinental flights before senior stewardesses as a lush reward for longevity, such runs are now frequently given to neophytes-simply because they are younger, fresher and can run harder...
...greatest reward of all, of course, is that Weight Watchers look better to members of the opposite sex, and know it. Singer Sylvia Syms, 43, dropped 30 lbs. in eleven weeks, as a result dared to wear a bathing suit for the first time in her life on a recent Caribbean vacation. And when New Jersey Housewife Fran Jaffe, 38, took off 50 Ibs., her pleased husband presented her with a full-length mirror, to which he lovingly attached a note: "You are the fairest of them...
...athletes themselves would benefit from the broadening and challenging new experiences possible. Playing Tufts and Brown beefs up the record and improves chances for post-season honors, but those games supply very little athletic reward...
...company documents. To inhibit gabby long-distance telephone calls, he gave his aides three-minute egg timers. Yet Missouri's largest employer spends lavishly where it counts: on new technology. Since the company's birth, McDonnell has poured 83% of its profits into research and expansion. For his reward, he has earned the steadiest profit rise of any major company in a roller-coaster business where losses come easily and disaster often. McDonnell's net income has climbed every year since 1951; last fiscal year it reached $43.2 million, 35% above the year before. So far this year profits have...
...Deputy Führer Martin Bormann, now 66, who Wiesenthal claims is not only alive but doing quite nicely in Brazil. Says Wiesenthal with mock resignation: "No country will want to attempt a second Eichmann case. Bormann will come to his end some day, and the West German reward of 100,000 marks [$25,000] will never be paid." After a book like this, maybe it will...