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Speed Replaces Depth. Though often short on facts, the U.P. historically has compensated with brighter writing; its crisp, concise style has forced the A.P. in recent years to valiant efforts to refurbish its often stodgy copy. Style has become increasingly important as the technical speedup in communications sytems has all but eliminated the old-fashioned beat. At the same time, speed has increasingly displaced depth or even accuracy, as writing and checking time dwindle. The A.P., with more manpower, is widely accepted by editors as more accurate than the U.P. Day by day the A.P. also files more interpretive background...
...production workers laid off, Chrysler retooled and modernized its production lines, got tacit approval from the U.A.W. to increase output per man. Today, with 110,000 workers, Chrysler is making almost as many cars as in 1955. But this has also brought protests from union locals against the "speedup." To bring pressure on the corporation for a change in production quotas, the U.A.W. last week ordered Chrysler members to stop working overtime, thus forcing a cut in Chrysler production-and in productivity...
...mellowed towards lower tariffs, fought for U.S. membership in the antiprotectionist Organization for Trade Cooperation. To Weeks goes major credit for fostering U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs that have combated Communist propaganda and helped raise U.S. exports. He has made such long-needed improvements as a Patent Office speedup, broader Weather Bureau services, steady support for the merchant marine...
...Speedup. The slide took place while the economy boomed on-except for farm prices, which edged down ½% from mid-August to mid-September (the third drop in a row). Steel production blazed at 100.6% of capacity. Business outlays for new plant and equipment will hit a $38 billion annual rate in 1956's final quarter v. $31 billion last year. For the auto industry. 1956 would probably turn out to be the third best year on record with production of 6,286,000 units, behind only...
Through war and depression unions looked on the time study men with cold suspicion, believed them to be company spies trying to force the "speedup" (requiring a worker to produce more to earn the same pay) or the "stretchout" (putting a worker in charge of more machines). More often than not the "expert" lacked both technical training and knowledge of the job he judged, and even today some companies ask for trouble by using untrained white-collar workers to make time studies. Not until World War II did unions take the first steps toward cooperation with management on the problem...