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Make-Work & Unwork. As it happens, the corollary of "job security" is all too often featherbedding, make-work and unwork. In the nation's $80 billion construction industry, some painters will not use spray guns, some carpenters will not use certain power tools, others do not permit ladders to be brought to a job (they must be hammered together on the site). Railroad diesel locomotives still carry a useless "fireman." Says an International Harvester engineer in Milwaukee: "If you want to repair a machine, an electrician has to come and shut off the switch, a millwright loosens the nuts...
...dated Jan. 8, Mr. Gates told her that an inspection over Christmas vacation had revealed that her room was a fire hazard. Miss Cummin answered the next day, saying that she had tested the drapery and tin foil and found them not flammable, but that she was willing to spray the entire room with fireproofing if they wished...
George Washington as she fissioned along in silence, then surfaced and fired a spray of missiles...
...immediately headed for "home plate." En route I was able to visually locate an enemy missile site. Using our preplanned tactics, we evaded Cuban radar coverage and brushed treetops and sea spray away from the island...
...right spots, and drew a tightrope champion's applause when she reached the other end. Singing Swanee, she pointed to an imaginary note high in the air, raised her sights, and shot a clean hole right through the middle. More applause. With a trip offstage for throat spray, she went on, getting better and better, until at the end some 300 people rushed the stage to shake her hand...