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...losing this battle? The chief reason is that the majority deliberately pull their punches. Unlike union papers, which thrive on dispute and energetically exploit any issue that affects the worker's welfare, most house organs concentrate on personal notes and chitchat. They not only shun controversy but steer clear of any stories on company policies and problems. A recent survey of 75 house organs in the Los Angeles area showed that only 15% made any attempt to communicate management plans and policies, almost all the rest were filled with social and personal items...
...zero" (north), a regulating signal is transmitted. In a sense, this signal is Tacan's compass needle. The airplane's Tacan separates all the signals, computes their differences, and, all without a sound, converts the result into a degree reading on a dial for the pilot to steer...
When Chicago Tribune Publisher Robert R. McCormick died last spring, newsmen all over the U.S. wondered what changes would come in the paper without the Colonel's commanding, eccentric personality to steer it. Would the Trib, for example, drop some of his pet projects and peeves? Last week, amidst a number of almost imperceptible changes, the Trib stepped right out and put the ax to one of the Colonel's fondest innovations...
...school's trustees to put aside $5,000 a year to buy livestock, and then sell it to the boys at cost. Then he and his students began experimenting with feed, found that the blemished cull potatoes discarded by farmers could provide, when dried, 90% of a fat steer's diet. So a whole new industry grew up in Kern County. Instead of paying $65 a ton for corn and $42 for barley, local farmers now had a good substitute for only...
Each year the chapter buys from 250 to 400 steer calves, uses $40,000 worth of feed. Once, it bought 40 acres of sagebrush land, leveled it, tested its soil, built up its fertility, then gave it to the district as a $35,000 gift. The boys have proved such able businessmen, in fact, that the Wasco bank thinks little about making them loans. One boy-the son of a Swiss immigrant who works for $1.37 an hour-has borrowed and repaid...