Word: swift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flashiest items in the show are masses of crowns, earplugs, nose pendants, beakers and breastplates, all done in pure gold but varying in color from silvery to deep yellow. Such treasures lured Pizarro and his conquistadores to Peru, and thereby led to swift and bloody destruction of native culture...
Benefits to Eugene from the plan: more power for the local company and the first real flood-control system for the swift-flowing McKenzie River. Benefits to the Government: a chance to provide both power and flood control for an important section of the U.S. without footing the entire bill...
Farewell to Beasts. "Company allegiance is a fact," writes Father Purcell. In a sample of 202 workers, 187, or 92%, showed more or less "favorable" attitudes toward Swift & Co., a great change since Upton Sinclair wrote in sorrow and anger (in The Jungle, 1906) about the company-hating "human beasts" in the Pack-ingtown jungle. Of the rest, 14 were neutral; only one man's attitude was downright "unfavorable...
...main reasons workers gave for liking Swift & Co. were that it provided steady work, took good care of the sick and aged. That workers expressed allegiance to Swift & Co. did not mean that they really liked their jobs or had no grievances. Positive "pride of work" was uncommon, Father Purcell found. Exceptional was the man who said: "I got one of the toughest jobs in the soap house. Work with lye. They say I'm one of the only ones who can do it . . . See these scars on my arms . . . ? I'm interested in my work...
Many Negro employees complained that Swift did not give them an even chance with whites to climb to better jobs. Both Negroes and whites disliked the bonus plan under which Swift pays employees extra for output above "normal" standards. Only 16% said they wanted to see the system abolished, but an additional 55% viewed it with mistrust. ("They put it in a book, and only they have the book"). One trouble was that many workers did not understand how the plan operated ("It's bad! Like on my job-you can't hardly figure it out"). Father Purcell...