Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...style commercial: "A new limousine, the Volga, has been built at the Molotov Gorky Motor Works . . . The new car has an unusually broad windshield and a number of gadgets including a clock on the dashboard, a radio and a heater. Everything is well designed and of excellent workmanship . . . far surpasses the Pobeda in elegance of lines and finish and is much roomier. For long-distance travel the middle seat can be lowered to form...
TOUGHER CONTRACTS are in store for Navy planemakers because of troubles with planes ordered during the Korean war. The Navy canceled more than $1 billion in contracts between 1950-54 because the planes failed to live up to specifications; it now threatens to pay less for sloppy workmanship and write actual cash penalties into new contracts...
...suggestion programs) got more than two million ideas from employees, found 20% of them worth adopting and paid out something like $15 million in awards. For U.S. business the tangible savings added up to at least $300 million; no one can count the intangible rewards in higher morale, better workmanship and closer cooperation between boss and worker...
...horse slumping through." Aware that horses never slump through sturdy bridges, a committee of private citizens decided to incorporate to build a new toll bridge across the Charles. When the bridge was completed in 1793, the Boston newspapers, with their customary conservatism, reported that "the elegance of the workmanship, and the magnitude of the undertaking, are perhaps unequalled in the history of human enterprises...
When Rogers and Pottinger were de signing books that became valued for their workmanship almost more than for content, the Press was barely surviving from a financial viewpoint. The selection of books lay heavily with the arts and letters, and many of the texis were overly pedantic for even a comparatively wide readership, Many a time the Press would put out a book that was certain to be a commercial failure just because it was so beautiful, crudite and lack-insert...