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...biggest thing in the Grumman policy of realism is the incentive wage plan. Started a year ago, it was the first in the aircraft industry. It is also probably the simplest. Time studies of individual operations are eliminated. The incentive pay bonus is paid, not on individual operations, but on the output of the entire plant. Thus on half of all poundage over a fixed rate (.48 pound per worker per hour) everyone in the company, from janitors up to executives mating $8,000 a year, is paid a bonus every three months. Bonus for the last year...
Last week the Burlington, Vt. WFA office received nine carloads of overripe eggs. After brooding a bit, the WFA officials figured that the simplest way to dispose of the nearly two million bad eggs would be to bury them beyond the town limits of South Burlington. They hired a bulldozer, dumped five carloads into a gully, and covered the yolky quagmire with a thin layer of sandy topsoil...
...Dewey added: "This is the simplest application form of any state in the Union. . . .† It is time this campaign of deceit was labeled and exposed." Not This Time. Then Candidate Dewey settled back to quiet, careful building of his campaign. He indicated that he was going to make reconversion a major issue by announcing that, on his way to the conference of Republican Governors which he has called in St. Louis, he would stop over in Pittsburgh for reconversion talks with businessmen and labor leaders...
Despite some slow moments, "Going My Way" is certainly the best picture to have hit Boston in many months, and is, in a modest way, something of a revolution in movie-making. The story itself is of the simplest. To the poverty-stricken parish of Father Fitzgibbons comes Father O'Malley, ex-ballplayer (St. Louis Browns), ex-songwriter, who whips up a few hit tunes, pays off the mortgage, solves most of the local problems, including juvenile delinquency and generaly makes himself useful...
...Indians, savage as the Japanese, were at once converts, enemies, neighbors, field workers, barbarians, trail blazers, and victims. From the first days when the Caribbean shores were peopled with cannibals and with imaginary monsters as fierce as crocodiles, the American imagination grew with the realization that the simplest actions of everyday life were hazardous. It flagged when it assumed itself, and the country, safe...