Word: quiteness
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...many lovers of TVA would be grieved, for when he started in 1933, he was able to gather an unusually able engineering staff about him both because of his personal reputation and because Depression had deprived most engineers of jobs. Many of his staff could be counted on to quit with him and they could not be replaced. More important, however, if Arthur Morgan should quit, those persons would be grieved who would like to see the breach between the utilities and the New Deal healed. If Mr. Lilienthal should quit those would be grieved who would like...
...remember being very worked up about the problem in hand and refusing to quit till I had my say. I was very doctrinaire in my defense of the (I suppose) obscurantist position that it all didn't amount to that. That progress was a myth and science just encouraged it to be one that we had been better off hundreds of years ago when people had never heard of progress and never stopped their plowing for a minute to think of it. That we lived and ate and sang and suffered and died and we had better do them...
...thought that was good pay until he learned that the man next to him was getting the same wage after 35 years. Then he quit. In Denmark he had worked in a bicycle plant and he now became bench hand in the John R. Keim Mills at Buffalo, a bicycle factory which was branching into automobile parts. In less than four years he was assistant manager; in five, manager. When Henry Ford bought the Keim Mills in 1911, "Bill" Knudsen found himself, like many another oldtime bicycle man, in the stripling automobile industry...
...employers. At them Preacher Martin hammered Sunday after Sunday with his gospel of justice for workingmen. He protested publicly against the 75?-per-day wages which some members of his flock were paying, invited labor organizers to speak from his pulpit. Irate deacons soon gave him a choice of quitting his agitating or quitting his pulpit. He quit the latter, went to work for Chevrolet...
...Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy and gut, and at the same time keep his sweetheart Judy (Phyllis Welch), who thinks he ought to quit living in a cabin, make some money and behave like other people. Their problem is resolved in a wild night during which Van meets a 17th Century Dutch girl named Lise (Peggy Ashcroft); a crooked judge and a traprock official are suspended by the Dutch merrymen in the bucket...