Word: timed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle was the best...
...flow of executive information, revising an outdated product line, amicably easing out executive deadwood. The firm was founded by the late Edwin Booz, a Reading (Pa.) ironmonger's son who studied economics and applied psychology at Northwestern University while serving as an Evanston night cop. At the time, efficiency experts were entranced with time-motion studies on how to do such things as lay more bricks in less time. Edwin Booz's instinct was to concentrate on the big questions involving basic company strategy, new products, sales ideas. His first big break came in 1925, when Sewell Avery...
...Live Again), women's editor of Christian Herald Magazine, widow of the Rev. Peter Marshall, late pastor of Washington's New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and chaplain to the U.S. Senate; and Leonard Earle LeSourd, 40, executive editor of the interdenominational magazine Guideposts; both for the second time (his earlier marriage ended in divorce); in a ceremony attended by three ministers: the bride's father (Presbyterian), the groom's father (Methodist), and Dr. Norman Vincent (Positive Thinking) Peale (Reformed Church in America), LeSourd's editorial superior on Guideposts; in Leesburg...
Married. Whitelaw Reid, 46, a director and onetime (1947-55) editor of the New York Herald Tribune; and Elizabeth Ann Brooks, 27, executive secretary of the Fairfield Foundation (which promotes international cultural exchange); he for the second time, she for the first; in New Rochelle...
Meanwhile. Rommel spent the longest day of all streaking to the front; but by the time (close to midnight) he arrived at his headquarters, nearly all of the 24 hours that he had prophetically claimed would decide the fate of Germany were over. In a mixture of egocentrism and utter despair, he said to his aide: "If I was Commander of the Allied forces right now, I could finish off the war in 14 days." Author Ryan leaves one question tantalizingly unanswered: How did Mrs. Rommel like the grey suede shoes...