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...entice inflation-wary investors. Some 1895 bonds promise to pay in gold the interest every year and the face value in full in 1995. While the 1895 price of gold was $20.67 per oz., the precious metal closed in New York last week at $511. For decades the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, the largest remaining ingot bond issuer, dutifully made 2% semiannual interest payments in gold coin. But in 1933, Congress struck the gold clause and restricted the bonds' interest and principal payments to cash...
...Topeka, Kans...
...history of work innovation experiments indicates that programs which do involve all workers at the lowest levels are the most dramatically productive. The most famous American experience was probably General Foods' Topeka, Kansas dog food factory. An autonomous team system divided into three areas the entire production and packaging process. Team leaders replaced traditional foremen, acting as co-ordinators rather than intimidators. Workers had responsibility for ordering materials, making changes in the work process, and maintaining equipment. Productivity shot up to over 50 per cent of what industrial engineers expected from their calculations based on traditional work methods...
...Topeka plant was not an anomaly. Others in the U.S. and Scandinavia have also suggested that blue-collar workers may not be as incompetent as is traditionally presumed. Their knowledge and motivation can dramatically improve a company's financial health...
Last year's Series between LA and New York was so much more exciting because the cities are so far apart. A World Series between Topeka, Kansas and New Delhi, India would be fantastic. It was so nice of you. Mr. Toobin to make me realize this. I think that from now on the teams should be selected to play in the World Series on the basis of the distance between and the vitality of their cities and not by their abilities...