Word: swapping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...meaningful and satisfying" by making clear the importance of an individual's contribution to the total output, and by drawing on his ideas for improving output. Unions should relax their seniority rules, which have hampered "management's right to recognize ability and efficiency in making promotions." and swap their featherbedding requirements, where they exist, for higher wages...
...problem. Equitable will buy cars from Pullman and other manufacturers (in payments spread over five years), and lease them to railroads on 15-year contracts. Gossip among railroad men was that the rent will be less than the $1.75 a day which roads now charge when they swap each other's equipment. When the contracts expire, the roads may return the cars to Equitable, or rent them for another ten years at 20? a day. "We think," said Carry, "that the railroads will see that it will cost less to rent modern cars than to repair and maintain aged...
...cent in cash. (In 1939, he had paid about $3,000,000 for the Journal, another $2,000,000 for its radio station, and $800,000 more for Hearst's Georgian and Sunday American, which he folded.) Last week's deal was a straight stock swap: Howell & Co. exchanged their control of the Constitution properties (valued at $4,500,000) for the non-voting preferred stock in a new corporation that will control the merged papers. Chairman of the board and owner (with his family) of the voting common stock: James...
Coach Howie Hobson's strategy was to swap a few outside shots for possession of the ball, but Hobson apparently hadn't counted on Smith's five completed set shots. The Blue was also caught short by the skill of Gerry Murphy and Dick Covey at spreading out the Eli defense and working the ball into Rockwell or Smith...