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A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix.
David E. Woolverton • Mission Rift
John Fowler
@johnsfesq
Best-practice steam engine technology could have saved the equivalent of a quarter of labor costs at most plants. Inefficient furnaces were oxidizing away huge amounts of metal. The Germans were pulling ahead in the use of overhead belt conveyors. It was absurdly wasteful to support 119 rail-shape standards. Better management of furnace linings, mo
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James Murry
@edond
Bygott History
Roger Bygott • 5 cards
But I had no time to waste in being humiliated, for when Surgeoner looked me in the face I knew him at once for the tramp I had last seen in the pit at Deptford.
Robertson Davies • Fifth Business (Deptford Trilogy)
Nothing went in print for a politician unless it was iron-clad.