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...plant at Battle Creek since December, 1930, and he has made some startling discoveries concerning its use in mechanical factories. Machinery designed to turn out 165 pieces per minute is working at a 208 per minute rate. Wages are not reduced, but overhead is appreciably cut. Yet dividends pour forth as before. The secret is that the shorter shift is easier to handle, needs no lunch-hours and no replacements during lunch, and is more efficient. Shorter hours lessen the monotony and the production curve moves up, so that even the low spots are higher than before...
...references to the national scene, apart from its delineation of a program for the State, it was just the sort of paper to be expected from a conventional presidential candidate?care- fully balanced, shrewdly generalized, replete with phrases like bright empty bottles into which any man could pour his own meaning. Newsmen, overanxious to make a "story," outdid themselves reading national significance into his words. Excerpts...
...their mid December wages. Mayor Harry Arista Mackey & staff tried to kite the city's pay checks by postdating them until Jan. 1, when Philadelphia could sell $2,000,000 in bonds to the sinking fund. The kited city checks were to be called "scrip." Banks refused to pour more money down the political sewer. Private banks, like Drexel & Co. (Morgan partnership) would loan nothing until city and county governments were merged, top-heavy governing overhead reduced. In desperation Mayor Mackey's council ordered a raid on the city's sinking fund. The sinking fund...
...Among us the mechanical helpers belong, not to Mr. Fox and to Mr. Box, but to the workers. And this at once changes the whole situation. Workers do not wish to break up automobiles; they do not wish to pour milk into the river...
...converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five men, including the two owners, had been drowned...