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...Saturday early in 1957, when Sir Simon came across two salesgirls carefully filling out long inventory-replacement cards while customers fumed for service. "What are these cards for?" he asked. The girls did not know. Sir Simon found that they were to keep track of merchandise in the stockroom, to curb employee pilfering and to tell the store manager when to reorder. Sir Simon ordered them abolished and let the sales clerks go freely into the stockrooms to get whatever they needed to sell. Pilfering not only did not increase, but the clerks sold more because they knew exactly what...
...involved with the production of experimental vacuum tubes in Cruft and the pre-radar training courses held there during the Second World War. When the Lyman Laboratory was completed in 1931, he was appointed supervisor of the stockroom...
When the Gordon McKay Laboratory of Applied Physics was opened, Carley was put in charge of planning and organizing of the new stockroom, which now serves all of the work in bth Physics and the Division of Applied Physics...
...Robert William Galvin, 34, was elected president of Motorola Inc., replacing his father, Paul V. Galvin, 61, who becomes board chairman and remains chief executive officer of the company he founded 28 years ago. Born in Marshfield, Wis., young Bob went to work in Motorola's stockroom in 1940, has been with the company ever since, except for a hitch in the wartime Signal Corps. In 1954 Motorola muscled its way into the company of the TV giants (Philco, Admiral and RCA), now claims to be the nation's No. 1 radio-manufacturer...
...regular Daytona Dodge agency, Danny prepared his D-500-1 himself. The result was truly a stock car, tuned for the last ounce of performance, but not tricked up. A man could buy the duplicate anywhere Dodges are sold. When Danny skittered into the speed trap, his deep-treaded stockroom tires bounced over the ridged wet sand at an average speed of 130.577 m.p.h. His nearest competitor in the class: a 1956 Mercury, clocked at 124.503 m.p.h...