Word: savitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...march in parades to demand more hours' work of himself for no more pay. Plant managers and party planners raced to outdo each other with new gimmicks or old variations on the Soviet Stakhanovite system: P. Bykov's "rapid-lathe-operators' movement," J. Savitch's "rapid-grinders' movement," P. Duvanov's "movement for speeded-up baking of tiles," the "method of three" for cooperative laying of bricks-one man to slap on mortar, one to pass the brick, one to set the brick. The "work norm" became the laborer's master: if bricks...