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Brains and a Skunk. Despite its explosivelike expansion, the company has avoided the production headaches of many another aircraft plant because 1) it has an immense knowledge of what not to do in building planes; 2) Douglas has always surrounded himself with top-notch engineering brains; 3) Douglas picks a man for a job, then lets...
...does he have any exquisitely sympathetic labor relations. He operates one of the biggest and last great open shops in the U.S. Union leaders make no secret of their alarm. Douglas' attitude is direct, as usual. On his desk sits a small pottery model of a skunk, which many visitors instantly link mentally with the colloquial axiom: "Never get in a squirting match with a skunk." It is said that when visitors mention labor problems to him, he merely points at the skunk...
...home from a costume party. Neighbors who saw him, dressed as The Mikado's Lord High Executioner, quickly called police. Near Camp Edwards, Mass., Private John J. Czeike pitched his tent at night, woke the next morning to discover that he had slept with a skunk in a bed of poison...
From the New York State College of Agriculture came a 32-page pamphlet of recipes and menus, prodigal with suggestions. The list of edible weeds was enthusiastically expanded: milkweed, stinging nettle, amaranth pigweed, sow thistle, skunk cabbage ("cooking reduces offen-siveness"), toothwort, hog peanut, yellow goatsbeard, spatterdock...
...done that, he wouldn't have given the "worker" a chance to "declaim for 45 minutes on nis 'rights' " and he would have set an example which might have had a favorable effect on the workers under his jurisdiction. No doubt, the worker was a skunk, but what sort of animal was the foreman, that he couldn't meet such an easy challenge...