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Later, for Bethlehem Steel, he studied employees shoveling ore, coal, etc. He found that because they used different sized shovels, output varied widely. Taylor tried the workers with a shovel holding 34 Ibs. of ore, then shifted to a shorter shovel holding 30 Ibs. For every reduction in the load, each man's daily tonnage rose - until a 21-lb. load was reached. Below that, output fell. Taylor set 21½ Ibs. as the ideal shovel load. Result: the yard force was cut by two-thirds, yet daily loadings rose from 25 tons...
Coach Adolph Samborski's team got off to an early 2 to 0 lead in the second inning. Third baseman Joe Conzelman opened with a single, left fielder Hank Pildner walked, and shortshop Paul Murphy dragged a safe bunt to load the basis. George Clark flied to right, scoring Conzelman, and on the subsequent cut-off. Murphy was tagged out at second and Pildner scored...
...holding a prism to his eye, he would first shatter the space, then load its fragments with color and re-order them into a design. "A boat moving in the atmosphere," says he, "sets up stresses and movements in the air. That is what I visualize, and the pattern and organization of those stresses...
...Wholesome Note. After 18 years, Capp has finally bowed to true love because he has become worried over the heavy load of satire his strip carries. Readers have begun to complain that it is "un-American," and he thinks a marriage, even a $1.35 (new inflation price) Dogpatch one, will introduce a wholesome note. Says Capp: "When I kidded advertising, people wrote, 'Don't you know advertising is the backbone of America?' This attitude made me uneasy about kidding America . . . The only thing for me to do seemed to be to change completely, hoping that in another...
Although these students will correspond to seniors here, they will carry minimum academic load and put great emphasis on their extra-curricular activities...