Word: slowdowns
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...lines to the speed of their slowest competitors. The railroads justify it by saying that to speed them up would congest freight yards, disrupt passenger service and create locomotive shortages (by increasing the number of short, fast trains). But the U.S. Government, in an antitrust suit, charged that the slowdown was primarily to prevent rate cuts by slower lines trying to compete with faster ones...
Creative Mood. In Amherst, Mass., the University of Massachusetts investigated the causes of a production slowdown in chicken coops, decided it had found one trouble, advised farmers to knock politely in future, before bursting in on the hens at work...
...afternoon papers one day last week because the men who print them didn't like one of the news stories. George L. Berry, president of the A.F.L. pressmen's union, had sent a telegram to his St. Louis local, ordering it to drop its plan for a slowdown strike. When the pressmen discovered a story about Boss Berry's decision in the afternoon Post-Dispatch and Star-Times they pulled the pressroom switches and walked out, right in the middle of the press run. After a five-hour walkout, union leaders, aware of the evil implications...
...play that shut down the Seatrain. Boss Arcelio Iglesias, Cuba's No. 4 Communist, had knit 9.000 dock wallopers into a powerful Maritime Federation that usually got what it wanted. With many more hands than jobs they contrived to shorten hours, specialize functions, make work. Their weapon: the slowdown...
Down with Fantasy. As in a traffic jam, the slowdown was felt all along the line. A leading Atlanta department store stopped its practice of "open ordering" (i.e., buying anything that wholesalers will sell). New York retailers began to tell manufacturers to deliver by certain dates or they would cancel the orders. They were no longer willing to take goods any time in the future-and get caught with top-heavy inventories. (This week the New Jersey Bakers Board met to consider a general shutdown to force flour prices down...