Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carom Shot." Aboard the big flattop -christened in October by Mrs. Christian Herter and scheduled to go to sea in May -were some 3,500 civilian workers, fitting out the newest queen of the seas. On the hangar deck Navy Lieut. Vito Milano, supervisor of hull construction, was getting things ready for a pep rally to celebrate progress (85% complete) and ask for more. A fork lift truck started to pick up a big steel trash bin; apparently the bin nudged a heavy steel plate, which sheared off the valve of a 500-gallon tank of diesel fuel, used...
...Supervisor of Curriculum and Instruction
World War II, when it flung up flimsy barracks for Southern Negro defense workers. Today nearly half the population is on relief. Narcotics, robbery and corruption are common. Last winter Police Chief William Ware stole a Christ mas fund for underprivileged children. Township Supervisor Elwood Dickens' saloon, the dirtiest in town, is a hangout for minors. Royal Oak Township's rapes, burglaries and arson cases go uninvestigated. The township treasury has an unexplained shortage...
...athlete. He stands an even 6 ft., weighs 202 Ibs., and although by baseball's terms he is known as a wrist hitter, the description is not quite accurate. "Maris," says Yankee Coach Ralph Houk, "is powerful all over." Raised in North Dakota, the son of a supervisor for the Great Northern Railway, he was a phenomenal high school football player. But as he himself admits, Maris is something less than cum laude off the athletic field, and though scouted as a promising halfback by the University of Oklahoma, he got no further than high school. Says...
Company executives, the survey shows, defend the caste system as a source of discipline and respect: "Someone has to give orders; someone has to take them. If the relation between supervisor and subordinate is fettered by friendship, the company loses." For example, an accounting manager had two close friends who did a sloppy job working for him. Result? All three were fired. The reason, explains a member of top management, is simple: "Every supervisor at one time or another has to get tough with his subordinates. He can't do this if he's too friendly with...