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Instead of the old piecework system, Olivetti has introduced a faster, less tire some production-line process. His workers have a time-incentive program which boosted production 62%, wages 30% dur ing the first year of operation. Further more, when Olivetti decided to build a new plant in 1950, he built it in Pozzuoli near Naples because he felt that the creation of jobs in the depressed south was more important than the economic ad vantage of locating it near his main plant...
TIREMAKERS expect 1954's production to equal or exceed last year's 100,500,000 units. A drop in auto output would hurt some companies which do a large original-equipment business, but not affect others (e.g., General Tire, Armstrong Rubber, Seiberling) which supply the growing replacement market. Prices will be about the same...
...driving off. In "The Morning of the Day They Did It," two U.S. military men on SPCA duty ("Space Platform for Checking Aggression") blow the earth to bits out of sheer boredom. "About Myself is a nightmare comedy of numbers set in an Orwellian bureaucracy. ("My left front tire is Number 48KE8846, my right front tire is Number 63T6895".) But if Humorist White jangles the nerves with predictable frequency, he remembers how to jiggle the funny bone too. His four-page "Across the Street and into the Grill," a parody of Hemingway, is a minor triumph of satirical humor...
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. last week reported that its sales for 1953 had pushed over the billion dollar level for the first time, thus making it the 31st U.S. company to pass the magic mark and become a member of the "Billion Dollar Club." Firestone's record: $1,029,000,000 worth of rubber goods and plastics sold ($64,000,000 better than 1952), for a net profit of $46,748,971, or $11.77 a share...
...varsity hockey team didn't need tire chains to get moving at Lynn's North Shore Sports Center Saturday night. The Crimson whipped Dartmouth, 4 to 0, and thereby established itself as a definite threat to retain its Beanpot tournament crown tonight and tomorrow...