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During 1944, WPB's Management Consultant Division worked out incentive plans for some 1,000,000 workers, kept tab on what happened through spot checks of the plants. Result: production jumped an average of 40% within three months after the workmen began to get bonus pay for extra work...
...Place to Work. Yalta is bigger now (1936 pop. 29,000), and the Germans wrecked it so badly that Russian workmen had to rush temporary restorations to house some of the Big Three staffs. The white stone palace where President Roosevelt stayed was built in 1911 for the last of the Romanovs. But the smaller of the estate's two palaces, the gardens themselves and the famed Fountain of the Nymph-smuggled from Pompeii in 1834 -are pretty much as they were when Mark Twain saw them, clustered in the shadow of the great Ai-Dagh (Holy Mount...
...particularly zestful moment came in 1939 when he got so mad at the din from a sewer-construction job near his house that he wrecked a WPA drill with an ax, yelling to the workmen: "I say to you, this damned rat-a-tat-tat day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, must stop!" He was fined...
Nothing remained where the Mont Blanc had been. A half-ton fragment of her anchor was found three miles away. A gigantic rock, torn from the harbor bed, killed 64 workmen on a pier. In Halifax, whole streets of houses crumpled as if struck by a giant hand. The concussion crushed people to pulp or tossed them high. The walls of a school fell in on 200 children before they could rise from their seats. Countless fires started, merged into one. The toll: 2,000 dead, another 500 never accounted for, 20,000 injured. Property damage totaled some...
...editorial experts demanded a Manhattan subway as early as 1849. When city officials paid no attention, the magazine hired a crew of workmen and attempted to dig a subway secretly under downtown Broadway, smuggling the excavated dirt out through the nearby cellars of sympathizers. A Tribune reporter nosed out the venture before it was finished...