Word: turnoveritis
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West Germany has abundant labor (1,300,000 unemployed), but output per man shift is 30% lower than it was prewar. A fourth of the Ruhr miners' homes were destroyed during the war. Today one in every ten miners is forced to leave his family in some other part...
The rolls of big veterans' groups are going down. Since 1946, the American Legion has dropped from 3,325,000 to 2,725,000 members, the Veterans of Foreign Wars from 1,500,000 to 1,250,000. These figures represent net losses in a rapid turnover; V.F.W., for...
Died. John A. (for Augustine) Hartford, 79, who with his brother George built The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. into the world's biggest grocery chain (TIME, Nov. 13); of a heart attack; in an elevator taking him to his Manhattan office. "Mr. John" left school at 16 to...
Early & Late. But if U.M.T. is to work, it will have to be meshed with an effective reserve. And there lies the trouble. The Army's present ramshackle and disorganized reserve system needs drastic overhauling. Candid Pentagoners say that the National Guard is wobbly, often clique-ruled, often riddled...
As defense production steps up and the labor market tightens, the Rays are not worried about losing workers to other industries. Thanks to the incentive system, General Controls' labor turnover is only about ½ of 1% per month (v. an average 4% for the Los Angeles area). Says 40...