Word: speedups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...December he was able to announce that "more than 60% of peasant families" were in cooperatives-an astonishing increase of 53.1 million peasant families in six months. Mao and his subordinate leaders presented other evidence of a widespread consolidation of Communist power and, elated by their success, announced a speedup in their socialization programs. Plans which were to have been accomplished in ten or 15 years were cut to five years. "The socialist revolution, in the main," said Mao, "could be completed on a national scale within about three more years...
...Chinese Countryside," Mao Tse-tung last week asserted that some 70 million farm families-more than two-thirds of all peasant households-have now been collectivized. He told a party meeting in Peking that Red China's Socialist revolution "has rolled ahead so fast" since he ordered a speedup last summer that he now thinks it can be basically achieved for China's 585 million in about three more years. Apparently Mao believes his great purge of 1950-51, in which perhaps as many as 15 million died, so effectively destroyed the Chinese will to resist that...