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Paralyzed was Bendix Products Corp.'s big accessory, plant at South Bend, Ind. one morning last week when most of the day shift employes, sitting down at their machines, refused to work. Just before noon Works Manager John P. Mahoney's voice boomed out over the factory public address system, ordered all employes to check in their tools, go home. Most of the 4,300 workers obeyed, but 1,100 sit-downers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Strategic Sit-Down | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...type carried on a circular frame operated by a lever. That Burt could write faster with his machine than by hand is highly improbable. Yet it had a feature that was lacking in some commercial machines for many years: separate sets of capital and lower-case letters, with a shift mechanism for changing from one to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dear Companion | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...fall by the wayside in November eventually get back into good standing, while the real mortality rate begins to show in February. Meanwhile it is not too much to ask that the University take heed to the age long plea for an effective adviser system in order to shift the onus of talking to every erring Freshman from the shoulders of the deans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLY TO RISE | 11/21/1936 | See Source »

Coaches Jack Carr, Tom Motley, and Jim MacDonald maintain their regular lineups substantially unchanged. A possible sensational Varsity shift may see Goalie Put Williams playing part of the game at center forward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIO OF SOCCER TEAMS BATTLING ELIS TODAY | 11/20/1936 | See Source »

Until some such plan as this is put into effect, undergraduates will continue to dawdle through college only to find the shift to a graduate school equivalent to a step into another world. It is time that Harvard adopted a flexible policy geared to the various abilities of its many students, instead of to the slow speed of the underprepared, bare-pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EACH ACCORDING TO HIS POWERS | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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