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When one identical twin gets heart trouble, the other usually has it or soon gets it. But not so in the case of G.G. and R.G. Of these medically anonymous twins, G.G. is known to his friends as "SpeedUp George," R.G. is known as "Lead in the Pants." In the process of living up to his twin brother, who is huskier and a little smarter, G.G. has become a highly sociable live wire, a Mason, a Woodman. He has also achieved a blood pressure of 180 (normal blood pressure: around 140), and has had a ngina pectoris for the last...
...production. It has been championed as the answer to the manpower pinch, as a shot in the arm to hop war production up as much as 30%. It has also been condemned as a backward step towards the piecework system (particularly unpopular with automotive workers), the speedup, the sweatshop...
...studies (schedules setting average time to complete operations), which actually gave some workmen so much free time that they played pinochle in washrooms. Murray got its U.A.W.-C.I.O. local to agree to new time studies by a firm of industrial engineers. To quiet union suspicions of a profit-inspired speedup, Murray did something unique in time study history: five union men were selected to take a nine-month time-study course, to help work out the new schedules...
Since last January the university has been on a speedup, year-round program without vacations, so that a standard course can be completed in two years and eight months. (Students going to war get a semester's credit for half a semester's work.) Special war activities include a new Naval R.O.T.C., with 400 members, extension courses for 3,000 adults to make aircraft workers and shipbuilders out of farmers and migrants; a course in aircraft design with classes for women; 78 new war courses, including one for comman-dettes (girl commandos). Now the university is planning...
...Russian symbol for self-imposed production speedup. Skilled Pneumatic-Drill Operator Alexei Stakhanov boosted coal output fivefold simply through better teamwork...