Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff. Last week, in Little Rock from his Dallas base, scrappy Charlie McCarty, 42, caught a glimpse of a picture in the making: two white boys approaching a Negro boy and his sister as they walked past an all-white junior high school. McCarty wheeled in a U-turn, grabbed his Rolleiflex, sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture...
...understandably reluctant to go into new towns or new industries to find jobs. Historically, sharp increases in productivity have always created tough periods of adjustment. Yet more production for the same amount of effort has also always led to stable or lower prices and better products, which in turn have increased demand and eventually spurred both production and employment...
Seven Commandments. Scholarly Konosuke Matsushita combines the inventiveness of an Edison with the uplift of an evangelist. In the 32 Matsushita factories that turn out his "National" products, the 12,150 employees all start the day by lining up and reciting the Seven Commandments of Matsushita. They range from "Be just, cheerful, correct and broadminded" to sharp reminders to "improve yourself through hard work" and exhortations to appreciate employee benefits, e.g., "Be grateful and repay kindness." Recitation over, employees break into a martial company song, The Song of National, that urges them: "For the building of the new Japan, unite...
Tips on Tape. To help train workers on new industrial processes, Dictaphone Corp. brought out a small, portable recorder and reproducing unit that gives instructions verbally rather than by complex text and diagrams. The trainee steps on a foot control to receive instructions, can turn the voice tape back to go over a step. Westinghouse found that the system cut learning time, increased productivity. Price...
James S. Lentz, assistant football coach, was the sole resident of the Club when the fire broke out at 12:05 a.m. Discovering that his telephone had gone dead, he drove to the fire station at the foot of Quincy Street to turn in the alarm...