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...numbered all barrels at the beginning of assembly, as they had always done, and would not test finished guns unless they came up in sequence. Result: when one gun was pulled out because of a faulty part, the whole test line stopped. Quipped one worker: "Production was like a Rube Goldberg cartoon-everyone and his brother was a foreman. . . . Mobs of men walked through the plant all day with books and no one knew what they did. ... It was like...
...mere rotogravure rube. On weekends he bolts out to his 89-acre farm at Dover, 15 miles southwest of Boston. He knows that his "I'm just a simple Yankee New Englander" is good politics. But it is no pose; on his farm, he puts on old clothes, pitches hay, saws wood, beds down his horses. He "turns over" four pigs a year; sells two, eats two. Last year he sold 1,600 dozen eggs...
Dodgers. Strong in the outfield, weak in the infield, as usual. Star Pitchers Whitlow Wyatt and Rube Melton are both 1-A. Rookie pitcher: Tom Warren, veteran of Casablanca...
Despite the Rube Goldbergish sound of some of his gadgets, Tom Saffady has cashed in heavily on his tinkering. At 27, he is owner and manager of Detroit's Sav-Way Industries. Frequently, he puts in as many as 16 hours a day in his sleek, paneled office, with its private bar, or in his four plants, humming with war contracts. Net income of his company last year: $400,000. Last week he had something besides inventions up his sleeve. He was working on a plan to cut his 600-odd employes in on profits...
Picture-of-the-Week: "The Life of Jack London". . . Famous last words: "Gee, honey, I thought you knew I was married" . . . Row K avows Rube Goldberg had been at the blackboard in R.E. the other day--he ran out of pink chalk, however. . . Lowbrow Essay: Snow is little hunks of white stuff, which when warmed...