Word: foreman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attitude of the steelworkers. Though some unions posted signs saying: "We shall return as slaves of Ike," and issued armbands emblazoned: "U.S.W. of A.-Ike's Slaves," the men were ready to work hard. U.S. Steel and others reported the workers' attitude "excellent." Said a foreman at Detroit's Great Lakes Steel: "Human nature is queer. There isn't any love feast between the workers and the company, but the guys in the plant have lots of pride and self-respect; they want to do a good...
Automatic Foreman. Machines Bull was founded in 1931 by Vieillard, then an adding-machine-company engineer. He bought the patent rights to a type of punch-card machine, which had been willed to Oslo's Cancer Institute by Norwegian Inventor Fredrik Bull. With only $140,000 in capital, Vieillard soon needed more financing, sold a 70% interest in the company to the wealthy Callies family (paper mills), closely related to the Michelin and Citroen family. With new capital, the company plunged into research, soon turned out a tabulator capable of writing 150 lines a minute when other tabulators were...
...ahead of a flute. Costing $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, depending on the number of components used, the 60s can make 10,000 additions, 3,333 multiplications, 1,666 divisions and 10,000 mathematical decisions each second. One part of the computer even acts as a foreman, assigns work to other parts as they finish their tasks. Thus the machine can handle scores of unrelated problems at one time, ranging from making out a payroll to calculating a trajectory to the moon...
...seems to me," wrote A. Usakovsky, a foreman at Moscow's Likhachov Automobile Plant, "that many of those who get married in church do so not because they believe in God but because they like the ritual with its solemnity and color." Even the Communist Party had to agree that Soviet weddings could hardly be more drab. Izvestia, carried away with the monotony of it all, even offered prizes for those who could think up elaborate and colorful rituals to substitute for Christian baptism, a coming-of-age ceremony that would correspond to confirmation, and a new wedding ritual...
Last week the party came apart. Accusing the left-wingers of being "proCommunist and anti-American while pretending to be neutralist," Right-Wing Leader Sue-hiro Nishio took 30 Socialist Diet members with him and set up a new "Democratic Socialist Party." Nishio is a coldly aloof onetime foundry foreman who organized one of Japan's first labor unions. He made it clear that his new party would have no time for "the proletarian revolution" and class war, would attempt to offer Japan's growing middle class as well as its laborers a non-Marxist alternative...