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...push the mountain aside, and Jordan's budget could never stand it. Then up stepped John Monroe, who had come to Jordan on a Point Four project to teach the Bedouins how to use bulldozers and other dirt-moving machinery to clear old Roman cisterns. With one power shovel, said John, he could cut a new road in two weeks...
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...
With a quick smile, a fine Irish tenor and a flair for charitable fund raising, Denis W. Delaney traveled a long way. From a job as pick & shovel laborer in the Lawrence, Mass, sewer department, he rose to be Boston's Collector of Internal Revenue, and in the Roman Catholic Church he rose to be a Knight of Malta...
...given a curt order to clear the needed dwellings, the inhabitants being given five minutes to get out." Once, when cynical British army clerks in Brussels expressed doubt over the authenticity of atrocity stories about Belsen, Templer sent them over to the horror camp in trucks and made them shovel corpses as an object lesson...
Making his first trip in the road's two-car presidential office was Harry Ashby DeButts, 56, a topflight operating man who has spent all his business life with the Southern. A graduate of Virginia Military Institute (1916), DeButts went straight to work with a pick & shovel on the tracks, hit almost every rung of the ladder on the way up. In 1937 President Norris made DeButts vice president in charge of operations...