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There are, Gliga says, 200 steps involved in producing high-quality violins. Apart from the initial millwork, Gliga violins are handmade with tools often fashioned by the artisans themselves for the delicate shaping and carving of the instrument. Using teams of three or four people, each specialized in one step of the process, the Gliga factory can maximize its output while maintaining high quality. That teamwork is a variation on the accepted manufacturing theme: purists argue that the finest instruments are those made entirely by one master. Gliga says several people working together actually add to a violin's character...
...doing their jobs but talking about them. The help they get from Onna White's routine choreography is tangential: who of us dances out work life any way, except dancers? The songs are written by too many hands to possess a distinctive signature, though James Taylor's Millwork with Bobo Lewis is a pensive pent-up lamentation...
Persuading Papa. Eddy Gilbert (né Ginsberg) was a plunger. At 27, angered by his father's refusal to make him a director of the family-controlled Empire Millwork Corp., he quit the company and started his own hardwood flooring business. Whithin four years he could point to annual sales of $250,000, and persuaded papa to buy him out for 20,000 shares of Empire stock. Then, armed with his stake and an Empire directorship, he began to move in on E.L. Bruce...
...Bricks, clay sewer pipe, structural tile, gypsum board, gypsum lath, cast-iron soil pipe and fittings, cast-iron radiation, bathtubs, lumber and millwork...
...National Industrial Conference Board reported that 13 of the 25 industries it surveys monthly are now forced to pay overtime wages because they haven't enough workers to go around 40 hours a week. (Latest industries to start operating over 40 hours a week: electrical manufacturing, lumber & millwork, paper & pulp.) Last week too the U. S. Civil Service Commission was scouting for 600 skilled workers for the Frankford (Philadelphia) arsenal. In Ohio, 4,500 production workers will be needed for a new shell-loading plant near Cleveland; at Cincinnati, Wright Aeronautical's new engine plant will shortly...