Word: tab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During 1944, WPB's Management Consultant Division worked out incentive plans for some 1,000,000 workers, kept tab on what happened through spot checks of the plants. Result: production jumped an average of 40% within three months after the workmen began to get bonus pay for extra work...
...this speech brought Keating high praise, along with requests for jobs. Commented Advertising Age: "It's things like this that reaffirm our occasionally wavering faith that it's fun to be in the advertising business." Worldly-wise Variety headlined the talk "Just Let 'em Pay the Tab-Keating...
...versions of the Stork Club presented checks face down to the customers, as a matter of courtesy and tact. The custom has held good down through the ages, with waiter trainees being admonished by their professors that it is a cardinal faux pas in cabaret etiquette to offer the "tab" facing boldly...
...eyes (20/40 in one eye,* 20/80 in the other) got there after two months of exercises, has since become a flyer. Another boy was refused by the Coast Guard for 20/100 vision, got in after a month and a half of eye training. Neither the Army nor Navy keeps tab of how many of their men have eye-muscled their way in, but the American Optometric Association has records...
...Army & Navy way is to set up Price Adjustment boards, which keep tab on the books of all contractors. When a contractor's unit costs start down and his profits start up, one of the boards calls him in. Intelligent businessmen, many of whom are making more money than they intended or even hoped, usually welcome this invitation to renegotiate the contract at a lower price. If they don't, the board asks, in effect: How would you like to explain your profits to the Vinson or the Truman committee? Negotiation proceeds from there...