Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...church meeting in home town Portland, Ore., Dr. Paul S. Wright, 60, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., confided to assembled elders that he will marry Christian Education Worker Mary McDowell, 27, in June. A December and May romance? Said Widower Wright: "You can't tell the split second you fall in love . . . We decided through earnest prayer to get married...
...unconscious motives are basically unworthy. A passive and compliant type who will not even ask for a raise may be covering up intolerable aggressions. Dr. Modlin tried to get his students to look at their employees with a diagnostic eye: "If you see a definite change in a worker's personality traits, the assumption is that he's reacting to severe stress . . . It's up to you to find out what it is and try to help...
...perfectionist worker who procrastinates because he cannot make decisions. The prescription was to put him in a set structure with firm deadlines, clearly defined duties and few decisions...
Despite the denials of Police Chief Patrick J. Ready that more cars than usual are being pulled in, a worker at the garage insisted that "the place was loaded with them yesterday...
...Ogre. With $15,000 and a genius for things mechanical, Louis Renault and two brothers started building racing cars in 1899 in a shop in his mother's backyard. By 1908 the shop was a 50,000-sq.yd. factory in Billancourt, near Paris. Its 3,000 workers were soon building 5,000 Renault automobiles a year. And Louis Renault owned it all. Vulgar, loud, domineering, impatient, he was a terror to associates, a friend to practically none. To the French working man, Renault became "the ogre of Billancourt." He instituted piecework, maintained an internal intelligence and security system similar...