Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average $52 a suggestion); Ford paid $542,918, Du Pont $295,382. General Electric $685,842. Government agencies gave $1,362,000 for new ideas-including a $275 award (and a promotion) for one selfless civil servant who suggested abolishing his own $12,000 job. Estimated saving to Uncle Sam from such suggestions: $44 million. In many companies employee suggestions have won equal rank with research. Says a Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. executive: "Our experience has been that we get a higher return on the ideas of our employees than we do from the development of a new product...
...Japanese delicacy favored by Sam Welles is toasted octopus cooked in oil over a charcoal brazier. John Dowling lists a dish he was served in Pnompenh, Cambodia: monkey soup and noodles. One day in 1944, far from his usual Georgia cooking, Correspondent Bill Howland arrived cold and hungry at an Alaskan trading post that boasted a cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered...
...help keep the legislative gears well oiled, Charlie Halleck uses "the Clinic," a secluded Capitol office comparable to Democratic Leader (and former Speaker) Sam Rayburn's "Board of Education," where Mister Sam's friends can sip at a bourbon-and-branch-water. Teetotaler Martin rarely visits the Clinic, but there, at the end of a long day, Halleck quenches the thirst of his assistant whips and plans the next day's work...
...particularly the Rules Committee chairmanship, were stripped from his successor, "Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...
That his sculptures were being admired in far-off England did not impress him as much as the prestige they brought him at home. For primitive man needs praise as much as the urban intellectual. Sam's priceless reward was seeing the revulsion in a native woman's face at sight of him change to admiration when she saw his carvings. To Bachelor Sam she whispered: "Ah, but you are clever...