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Until pachydermatous (275 lb.) Frederick Riebel Jr. was ousted from his $30,000-a-year job as president of Brewster Aeronautical Corp. three weeks ago, he kept his mouth tightly closed. But last week, before the House Naval Affairs Committee, which is probing Brewster's snail-paced production, Mr. Riebel rattled all the Brewster skeletons in public...
Last week in Detroit, where incentive pay has made snail's progress in the onetime auto industry, C. E. Wilson, WPB's production chief, once again pleaded for it. He begged labor not to confuse plantwide incentive pay programs with the union-hated Bedeaux plan, which "provides individual bonuses to inspire competition." But WPBster Wilson could have made his point more graphically if he had pointed to the way one incentive pay system operates in a Detroit plant...
...scale building projects where changes in the plan or the use of the structures may be likely or desirable. They call their development "Ratio Structures" and have completed a full scale sample in The Bronx. Built on small concrete piers, it is unique in having its framework, like a snail's, on the outside. The structure is composed of two practically independent parts: 1) an arch-shaped roof made of insulated panels and supported by posts; 2) rooms, formed of demountable inner & outer panels* which can be shuffled around at will under the roof. Thus the structure...
...objectives, new, undreamed-of. During the June days, Bolshevik leaders wanted an all-out attack on Kerensky. Lenin restrained them by force of will, warned them that the uprising would be abortive. In October he felt it was then or never, but his party had slowed down to a snail's pace. He debated and won them to his position. Concludes Hook: "If Lenin had not been on the scene, not a single revolutionary leader could have substituted...
...Goldbergs is "Rags to Riches" with a Yiddish accent. Through the years The Goldbergs (Mama Molly, Papa Jake, Daughter Rosie, Son Sammy) have moved gradually from Manhattan's Lower East Side up Riverside Drive and, finally, into the green Connecticut countryside. Their snail's-pace success has been milestoned by the kind of homely moralizing which moves clerics to write friendly letters...