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...copy of an American rig, but it is in short supply . . . Drilling is done according to official rates. In the Second Baku fields, for example, the government ordered that each crew drill 2,100 ft. per month in the Pennsylvanian-type limestone. [Then] a well-trained crew of speedup specialists [was moved in and] with ideal working conditions and new equipment drilled 4,800 ft. in one month. Now every crew in the Second Baku must drill 4,800 ft. per month...
When comrade leaders came to him one day last summer and offered to designate him an Aktivist (the East German equivalent of Russia's speedup Stakhano-vites), Willy calmly replied, "Nein. There are better people here than me." The union leaders were astounded; after all, as an Aktivist, Willy would be entitled to a 10,000-mark bonus every month. They reported Willy's refusal to the Chemical Workers' Union in East Berlin. The union bosses shook their heads in admiration. Willy Knoblauch, they decided, should get even more than Aktivist honors. He should be made...
...this type of patient, the doctors reported in last week's A.M.A. Journal, it might have taken nothing but a more severe fright to cause a prolonged heart speedup. And this is the sort of speed-up that can lead to fibrillation (a futile, nonrhythmic quivering) of the lower part of the heart, which means death...
...Speedup. In Phoenix, Ariz., after Jesse F. Roberts, 81, and Katherine Kosti, 89, failed to elope because she couldn't push his wheelchair fast enough to escape officials of their rest home, they tried again with the help of a friend and automobile, made...
...From March through July, there was no speedup in deliveries of 95 key military items, including some bombers, most tanks and electronics equipment. ¶ Deliveries on many critical goods were behind schedules only 30 days old. ¶ $3.5 billion worth of goods scheduled for delivery in 1952 will not be delivered until...