Word: upness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pearls Proprietary expects plenty of competition from other pearlers who know a good thing when they see one. At least five more syndicates have set up camp along the coast. But even when they get into production, there is no guarantee that they will be as successful as Pearls Proprietary...
To these complaints, the unions' reply is that many so-called featherbedding practices are actually required for safety reasons by many states, that cutting down crews would add to railway accidents. (Actually, states with such rules have no better accident records than states without them.) The unions have come...
Many a U.S. railroadman believes that the answer to the problem lies not in charges or recriminations, but in a joint effort on both sides to discover how featherbedding practices can be eliminated without undue hardship. The industry favors a plan adopted by Canadian railroads, which has helped cut down...
To Washington this week as guests of the Navy will fly a planeload of businessmen and scientists to inspect a new system being used by the Navy to speed production of new weapons. The system, called Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was set up to schedule and keep under...
The company's fees were about $1,800,000 a year when Booz retired in 1946 and Hamilton died. The job of coordinating, i.e., managing, partner fell to James L. Allen, then 41, a scholarly Kentuckian with a steel-trap mind for remembering facts and a punch-card sorting...