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ADVENTURES OF A WHITE-COLLAR MAN -Alfred P. Sloan Jr.-Doubleday, Doran...
...strong antidote is wanted after reading The Managerial Revolution, the book to read is Adventures of a White-Collar Man, the autobiography that General Motors' Chairman of the Board Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. wrote in collaboration with Boyden Sparkes. The book, which ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, is: 1) a lively account of the pioneering days of the U.S. automobile industry; 2) an intimate synoptic history of General Motors; 3) the success story of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who started as a $12.50-a-week draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co., about three years later...
...model Caja is run by young Dr. Raul Morales, who also visited the U.S. last month. In this group are 100,000 white-collar workers of banks, shops, etc. They are treated by a staff of 300 doctors, who are paid about 20 pesos an hour (80?) for their work. Dr. Morales, a syphilologist, is most concerned with preventive medicine. Every member is X-rayed once a year, given a tuberculin test, a complete clinical examination, a Wassermann and Kahn test for syphilis. Whenever a member is found to have tuberculosis, syphilis, rheumatism or heart disease, he is immediately given...
...song of the white-collar man called from his office to bear the burdens of Democracy" (according to its lyricist) was last week plugged in Los Angeles by Major Alberto E. Merrill, U.S. Army, and four recruiting sergeants. The Army has been plagued by many a song-plugger and press agent, but A Grand Vacation With Pay is the first recruiting song to command official sanction. Its authors are L. Wolfe Gilbert and Jimmy McHugh (Waiting For the Robert E. Lee, I Can't Give You Anything But Love and Ramona...
...Average hourly earnings of aircraft workers in 1940 approximated 74? compared to the autoworker's 96? , the rubber-worker's 86? , the steelworker's 84? . Meantime the planemakers have raided the labor pools of other industries, are putting many a white-collar youth to work with his hands. "It is too early to tell, but this expanding migration of bookkeepers and clerks and filling-station attendants into the manual skills of the defense industries may be the beginning of a revolution in U. S. public-school education and in the 'whitecollar culture...