Word: shorter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later, for Bethlehem Steel, he studied employees shoveling ore, coal, etc. He found that because they used different sized shovels, output varied widely. Taylor tried the workers with a shovel holding 34 Ibs. of ore, then shifted to a shorter shovel holding 30 Ibs. For every reduction in the load, each man's daily tonnage rose - until a 21-lb. load was reached. Below that, output fell. Taylor set 21½ Ibs. as the ideal shovel load. Result: the yard force was cut by two-thirds, yet daily loadings rose from 25 tons...
...fashioned French industry fails to share increased productivity with its workers in higher wages and shorter hours. Unlike U.S. workers, who can buy the goods they produce, French workers often make it but can't afford...
...down the giant slalom course. Then, in the downhill race, Andy came a cropper, skidding to two bad spills. Such jarring tumbles might well shatter the nerve of an ordinary competitor, but slim-hipped, 130-lb. Andy was in high spirits last week as she inspected the special (i.e., shorter) slalom course for her final race. Andy skittered around like a frisky colt as Coach Herb Jocum and Husband Dave Lawrence plotted her descent. "Gee," said Andy with a carefree grin, "this looks like a swell course...
Moony's Kid Don't Cry, the shorter of the two, was the opener and had a cast of two. It is, of course, not a play in the broad sense; it a fragment, an episode in the lives of two people, and as such relies on the individual portrayals for its basic appeal. I found both Donald Stewart and Madelon Hambro more than capable of meeting this challenge; they were able to establish full characterizations in a short period of time with apparent case. Although local theatergoers have had the privilege of watching Stewart before, Miss Hambro, an Emerson...
...there were a few more plane crashes in built-up areas, the airlines would be faced with a strong public demand to put airports much farther from city centers. This would cut heavily into airline traffic by reducing their time advantage over ground transport on shorter runs...