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...inconsistency of the foreman, Carl, a self-styled efficiency expert who understood practically nothing of the factory's detail but who had been recently imported to cut costs, rush orders through. When the lights went out and the machinery stopped, Carl blamed his chief enemy, Hagen, a good workman of 20 years' service in the factory who never hid his contempt of Carl. While Carl sent his yes-men blundering through the darkness on futile errands, Hagen and the old hands quietly handled the emergency...
...charge of operations, and genial Dr. John C. Hostetter, director of research, saw that everything was ready. In the deafening roar of gas blowers in the furnace and ventilating blowers cooling the factory Dr. McCauley could not make himself heard. He signaled his orders with his arm. A workman sprang to a windlass operating one of the furnace doors. Eight others manned the 20-ft. handle of a big ladle, hanging from an overhead monorail. By clenching a peg between his teeth, the '"front" man kept in place a rectangular face-shield. Above the din the carrier truck screeched...
Twenty-six students and two faculty members of the Medical School have been awarded scholarships and fellowships totaling $7,870, the Harvard Corporation announced today. The faculty members are Dr. Lester S. King, assistant in Anatomy, who is awarded a William Hunter Workman Fellowship for 1934-35; and Dr. John D. Stewart, assistant in Surgery, awarded an Edward Hickling Bradford Fellowship for one year from March...
Speechmaking is a great part of every Red Army officer's job and "Klim" on the platform compares favorably with General Johnson. Peasant born and bred to the trade of a foundry workman, Russia's War Commissar spends much time inspecting and orating to collective farms and factories. In 1931, when trouble with Japan first loomed, and again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin...
...Government has just established a minimum day wage effective throughout Mexico! I appeal for universal support of this minimum wage to restore Prosperity. . . . The theory of starvation wages and of overworked labor has now been scrapped in Mexico! The workman must be able to supply himself and his family not only with material necessities but also with honest pleasures and spiritual necessities." The new minimum wage, scheduled to provide Mexico's working class with such boons: 1½ pesos...