Word: stopwatches
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...parachutes, a main and a reserve, are always worn when jumping for sport. The main is worn on the back, the reserve on the chest. In competition the parachutist carries a stopwatch and altimeter mounted on a special chest platform...
...proletariat have the best of it. Nothing can really top lurching about in a motorboat while some M.I.T. freshman at the helm tries to disprove all manufacturer's claims and show that the boat will tip, with the clear spray of the Charles in the face, and a faulty stopwatch in the hand...
...also a big help; although the International Union of Electrical Workers refused to permit Westinghouse's time study, it raised no objection to a similar study at G.E. Where a union suspects that the time study is being used by management to cut pay or fire workers, the stopwatch will always make trouble. But properly used, the time study is a tool that can not only cut costs and hike production, but boost both workers' wages and company profits...
...peace, one big troublemaker still shows up all too often in U.S. industrial relations. That troublemaker is the time study, the system by which the operation of a certain job is clocked to determine how long it should take to do it. A time study man with a ticking stopwatch can show up on a factory floor and in an hour bring a giant production process to a halt; an argument over time studies is one of the biggest causes of the five-month-old strike at Westinghouse (TIME, Oct. 24 et seq.). Of the 3,399 grievance cases...
...Room for Roughhouse. A dogged competitor who would probably run right up the back of a man in his way, Dwyer refused to be tricked into that early scrap. He held himself in, listened like an old-timer to that split-second stopwatch ticking in his head. Up forward, Santee finished the first half in 1:59. It was too fast. Both he and Nielsen were running down. With four laps to go, Freddie Dwyer knew it was time to move. Taking no chances of repeating the past week's roughhouse, he swung to the outside and began...