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...soapmaker Cussons, Sons & Co. Ltd., who do a strange little jig to music piped in over the plant intercom. W'ason's findings: jigging on the job is a big help both in speed and efficiency. Wrote Wason: "The movements consisted of a rhythmical swaying of the trunk backwards and forward, with rapid folding of the ends of the papers and tapping and shaking of the soap. Rotation of the head was also observed. These movements were absent in new employees . . . however, the habit gradually developed after training. It was found that the greater the jigging the greater...
...whole body in a number of strange contortions, and to accompany this motion with a relaxation of the facial muscles and a slight quivering of the lips. This, then, is the first problem that confronts the popular song listener: Learn to express your response through all limbs, trunk, as well as digits, and you will soon surmount the first obstacle on the road to full musical appreciation...
...flying while it files an appeal before the full board, makes no bones about its determination to force its way into the exclusive circle of scheduled airlines. The line argues that CAB doctrine since the board was first set up in 1938 has been to limit the number of trunk airlines to the 16 "grandfather" lines (American. Eastern, United, T.W.A., etc.) operating at that time. Since then, three have dropped out, but no new names have been added to the roster, though 27 small feeder services have been authorized. Instead of expanding existing airlines to fill all U.S. needs, North...
...These five people, two young girls, their father and mother and the fortyish divorced woman who owns the castle--all are singularly purposeless. They neither concern themselves with the world at large, nor wish to, until the eldest daughter, Jane, finds a packet of love letters in a dusty trunk in the attic. This event, of course, changes all their lives, for the author of these billet doux was none other than the one great passion of both the elderly women in the castle. He had died on a foreign field in World War I. By falling in love with...
Viscounts in Vickerland. To Britons, Vickers' new Viscount is soothing balm after the blows to their prestige from the De Havilland Comet crashes. British aviation experts make the point that wherever Viscounts have flown on trunk (under 1,000 mile) routes, the turboprop planes have proved tough competition for piston-engined U.S. transports. Their four 1,400-h.p. Rolls Royce jet engines, hooked to propellers, not only make them about 35 m.p.h. faster than competing Convairs, but also much quieter and smoother riding. (British European Airways passenger traffic has gone up about 26% since switching to Viscounts from...