Word: spotlighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Results. Most Cleveland munitions makers think the customs and working habits at J. & H. are as preposterous as the bonuses which put the company in the national spotlight. Bill Jack has only one answer - production. Roars he: "We're turning out more per man than anybody . . . and more stuff per square foot of plant than any other plant in the country." J. & H. started exactly two years ago with 90 employes, a handful of machines in a small Bedford factory and a newly designed aviation starter. The War Department liked it well enough to order...
What with the football season over biting winds driving athletic spectators indoors, and the first game of the season, an exhibition, scheduled for Saturday night, basketball is now looming into the middle of the sports spotlight...
Deceptively simple but the fruit of many scientific tests, the system, which is merchandised as Three Dimensional Seeing, consists of painting the central mass of a machine a special grey which Du Pont calls "Horizon," then picking out the working surfaces in "spotlight buff" or "spotlight green." The idea is to increase the worker's alert observance of what he is doing by making it effortless for him to see, in soft-not glaring-contrast, the object he is working on and the cutting or shaping parts of the machine...
...Vinegar Tree" has turned out sour on its opening night. The shortcomings, however, are easily correctable with little effort. Shifting a spotlight six inches to one side, a rearrangement of properties and one or two simple cast shakeups can save a clever comedy. With those few alterations, Joy Street's second presentation of the year will be well worth attending...
After Partner Corcoran left Government service for a fat private Washington law practice, Partner Cohen faded from the Washington spotlight. He volunteered as adviser to U.S. Ambassador John G. Winant in London to help speed Lend-Lease. After a brief spell in England he returned to Washington. Although he dropped off the Government payroll, he stayed in the background, occasionally helping to draft a bill, to give advice. He turned down several jobs offered by Franklin Roosevelt. Still an ardent New Dealer, it was winning the war that seemed important now. He was waiting for the spot in which...