Word: trims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inefficiency, Beeching was technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries when the Conservatives called him in 1961 and gave him a free hand to put the rails on a paying basis. His unsentimental and sound plan: close 352 branch lines, 5,000 miles of track and 2,363 stations, and trim the payroll by 70,000 workers over five years...
...rejuvenating 160 acres of Cleveland, is master planner with vast authority of a $200 million reconstruction project in Boston, has a say-so in the downtown redevelopments in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Providence and Columbus. Winning a Federal Aviation Agency commission, Pei has designed a universal trim, pentagonal control tower now being installed in at least 25 U.S. airports. More than any other architect, Pei is engaged in a vast revamping of the U.S. cityscape...
...That's Negative!" When one of Poling's grandchildren asked him, "How does it feel to be old?" he replied, "How should I know?" He is fit and trim. Light brown eyes twinkle beneath great bushy eyebrows. Says he of his approach to life: "I have always had faith in God, and trust in Him. Daily I repeat to myself, 'I believe.' I could say, 'I doubt, I deny'-but that's negative. It's a tragedy that we should spend our living on the negative side...
...Cincinnati overhaul began last spring when Proudfoot, which had never before studied a newspaper operation, approached the Enquirer with a confident proposal to find and trim several hundred thousand dollars worth of waste effort. The prospect was warmly welcomed by Charles Staab, 60, the Enquirer's executive vice president and business manager, and something of a fat trimmer himself: eight years of Staab-inspired wow (for "Wipe Out Waste") campaigns have, among other-things, reduced the mail-room staff by introducing automation...
Marshall has rescued the company by automating to trim payroll costs from 69% of revenue to 57% last year, by closing unprofitable telegraph offices and by adding such new services as flower orders, wake-up calls and candy-by-wire in the 15,000 offices that remain. The company has made money every year since 1950, last year netted $16.8 million on $297 million in sales...