Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plushiest employe profit-sharing plan in big corporation history last week was announced by Beech Aircraft Corp. The scheme-which was okayed with a whoop and a holler by Beech's 6,000 employees-gives them one-half of all company profits. Distributions (50% cash, 50% U.S. Defense Savings bonds) will be made every three months on the basis of the preceding quarter's earnings. Beech thereby expects to generate enough worker cooperation and efficiency at least to offset the cost to the stockholders...
...defense jobs had cut enrollment in 669 leading colleges an average of 9.16% this fall. Stirred by this statistic and the U.S. entry into the war, many colleges last week announced plans for speeding up a college education without watering its quality: > Yale, Harvard and Princeton jointly launched a scheme to cut their course from four to less than three years by staying in session all year round. All three will let freshmen start next June instead of in September (choosing their men early by means of April College Boards). For this group, freshman "year" will run roughly from June...
...year-old experimental station in Salinas, Calif.), Agriculture will work side by side with the company on the new project. Plantings should begin about March, probably in California, New Mexico, other western States. Since an acre of guayule yields about 2,000 lb.of rubber, the new 45,000-acre scheme can produce a total of 40,000 long tons of rubber. Biggest hitch: guayule takes four years to reach maximum yield and each new crop means complete replanting...
...make dead certain of lasting industrial peace during war's duration? The Smith bill, the club which Congress had fashioned to keep labor in good order, had threatened before war came to bring on a labor blowup. Mr. Roosevelt now had another scheme. At his signal, Administration leaders quietly put the bill away in a closet. Not letting labor forget that the bill was still handy and could be broken out again at a moment's notice, the President suggested that labor and management get together, decide among themselves how to keep the peace...
...work for one's meal. But much as we take our present comfort for granted, we must wake up to the realization that the House dining room system as it is et up at present, is a luxury, like most of the rest of the Harvard living scheme. Luxury is all very well when it can be paid for, but the time is fast approaching when there will be few students with money to spare. This year a majority of the members of the Houses can certainly afford to pay for the privilege of being waited on. Whether that statement...