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Service. In Olympia, Wash., Mrs. Mary Guadette learned the Government wanted an egg speedup, hung a sign in her chicken house reading: "Keep 'em frying!'' One hen's answer: an egg that measured 7 in. around the center, 8 in. the long way, and had three yolks...
...case of Evelyn Duncan was a distinctly British variation of a distinctly Russian folk tune. In one week 21-year-old Evelyn made the amazing number of 6,150 shell components. She was given a bonus for her speedup. With it she bought 25 of Winston Churchill's favorite cigars, marked their box with the inscription: "From Evelyn Duncan, holder of the world's munition record." As the Prime Minister toured Birmingham's bombed areas, she ran through a police cordon, handed Winnie the cigars, kissed his hand. Said Winnie, gruffly: "Thank you very much, my dear...
...President returned, brooded over the plans. As always he was reluctant to move, to hurt the feelings of incompetents who must be shuffled out of the way. But the pressure of public opinion was on him crushingly; and the demands for a speedup in U.S. production now circled the world, from Britain through Russia to China. He had a personal reason too: he was heartily sick of the internecine quarrels which necessarily had to be settled over his desk. He decided to sign, and gave to his intimates word that he wanted all the quarrels moved into Henry...
Warden Joseph William Sanford of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta recently assembled his 1,000 convict laborers, told them that U.S. defense required a speedup in the production of uniforms, tents, powder bags, other Army and Navy items manufactured in the prison shops. Last week the prisoners' monthly publication (The Atlantian) reported the response: a hearty cheer for Warden Sanford, a doubling of overtime, a 100% speed-up in production...
Randolph-Kelly graduated 2,159 fliers between 1922 and 1939. Total this year: 1,786. But the speedup had its drawbacks. Graduates of the new system were not finished military pilots, actually had to have ten more weeks of training with tactical squadrons. Top-notch graduates were kept on at the schools as instructors. Courses were so compressed that instructors had little leeway to make up flying time lost because of bad weather, to nurse along slower students. Essential ground-school instruction had to be abbreviated. Veteran fliers blanched when they saw the hourly, crowded "rat race" at Randolph...