Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well as others inspires a certain confidence, gives him the feeling that his world is being held together while he recuperates. Du Pont tried this system on one worker who was losing 60 working days a year through nausea. When efforts to find the trouble failed, psychiatrists and his supervisor set up a realistic performance standard, insisted that he keep to it. The worker warned his boss that the strain would bring on the usual nausea. Said the boss: "Go to the window and throw up, then get back to work." The worker improved so much that he was later...
...Crowdus Baker, 54, former vice president and comptroller. Kellstadt joined Sears in 1932. He was brought into the Chicago headquarters in 1946 as general retail merchandising manager, moved steadily up the ladder to a directorship in 1948 and vice-presidency the next year. In 1950 Kellstadt was appointed supervisor of Sears's southern region. At Sears business was never better. For the company year ending Jan. 31, Sears had sales of $4,036,153,139, Paid a record of $2.64 per common share. This year Sears will spend $77 million on expansion, open 15 new stores...
Eyes Write. In Marin County, Calif., a Fort Baker Army Post personnel clerk received a document, initialed it, passed it on to his supervisor, promptly got it back with a note reading: "This document did not concern you. Please erase your initials and initial the erasure...
...expected, there were suburban wails. Grumbled Westchester County Supervisor Arnold D. Roseman: "It's the rape of Westchester." Arthur T. Roth, chairman of the Franklin National Bank of Long Island and a bitter opponent of the bill, pointedly asked Governor Rockefeller whether "an eleventh-hour emergency plea issued on a bill that favors Chase Manhattan isn't a conflict of interest." Replied Rockefeller: he had sold his 18,000 Chase Manhattan shares last January...
...Supervisor Howell, 65, a onetime Seventh-day Adventist missionary in South America, assured everyone that his own view was not necessarily the state's. No state teacher was under fire for teaching evolution, though "his own mind should tell him that he is doing wrong in so teaching." But the damage had been done. From the size of the uproar, it appeared that the majority of the people of Washington subscribed to Darwin's theory. Most embarrassed of all: Lloyd J. Andrews, state superintendent of public instruction, who had appointed Howell and who is seeking the Republican nomination...