Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government attempt to limit overtime would meet fierce opposition from management. Many companies prefer to schedule overtime rather than train someone new, because experienced hands give them better work and save them the expense of added fringe benefits for a new employee. The industries with some of the heaviest overtime are autos, where workers spend 5.4 extra hours a week in the plant, cement (6.6 hr.), grain mill products (7.3 hr.), and paper (5.6 hr.). Thus, even with overtime, few workers work more than a 46-hour week...
...have increased employment by more than 900,000 last year, but industry hotly disputes this. In the steel industry, most overtime is worked when employees fail to show up for shifts, and no new hiring would be feasible in such cases. The auto industry has dragged in every available trained worker to keep up with the sales race, and Detroit companies have even gone to South Bend to recruit laid-off Studebaker workers. But there is no time to train green hands; automen need production right...
...Havana, Britain's Leyland Motor Co. Ltd. signed up to sell 400 heavy 45-passenger buses for $10 million plus $1,100,000 worth of spare parts. The company gave Castro five years to pay, threw in an option for another 1,000 buses and agreed to train whatever mechanics were needed. To get around the shipping blacklist, Leyland first asked the British government for the loan of an aircraft carrier; when that request was ignored, the company announced that East German freighters would handle the order...
...trains: "The attention span of children for scenery is appallingly short." They like the trains themselves-for eating, sleeping, exploring. "Therefore, take advantage of train travel for long, overnight journeys...
...says at last, and the word sets in train the strange and affecting tale of this strange and brilliant Italian film, the hilarious and horrifying parable of a Judas goat who innocently leads a lamb to the slaughter...