Industrial Management: Volume 71 Issue 2
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The country, our company, my family
JAPAN AND BRITAIN have much in common geographically. The two countries even have certain psychological similarities. But here the similarities end and the differences…
The airlines' problem: too many seats and too few bottoms
Roger EglinBeneath the glossy jet‐set glitter, air transport is a desperately sick industry. Since 1966 the net profit on revenue of the world's schedule airlines has slipped from 6% to near…
Nuclear leaks checked
Pearce WrightBritish technologists have eliminated the possibility of nuclear ‘leaks’ at power stations during the critical refuelling stages—using the same process that controls the mixing of…
Industry Loosens the old school tie
Beside the cannon at Eton, Robert McNeile, managing director of Guinness, reflects on his old school's influence. Richard Brooks talks to leading educationalists and…
Companies push ahead with wildlife survival aid
The CEGB pays half the wages of bird warden Bob Scott who patrols the Dungeness power complex—just one of the ways much‐maligned industry is positively helping nature. Report by…
West Cumberland
After boom days in the Industrial Revolution and 1920's West Cumberland hit hard times. Now this special development area looks for a much brighter future, with improved roads…
Government millions needed to re‐jig machine tools
Machine tools exports are exceptionally buoyant, but the home sales graph continues to sink. This gives a headache to one of Britain's key industries that it will suffer from well…
Takeover life begins at 40
Victor Matthews, Trafalgar House Investments' managing director, turned an unremarkable early career in building into that of a millionaire tycoon. Kenneth Gooding of the…
California: State of perpetual motion
Six thousand miles away is an export market with a turn‐over matching up to Britain's GNP. Before a dollar can be earned though, understanding is needed of the constant…
Industrial relations: the half‐fought battle
parliamentary cleaning this spring would be sadly wrong; successive governments must be left with a duster in their hands to keep polishing away.
The hidden rules
Ewan MitchellMANY YEARS AGO, an executive called Addis was wrongfully dismissed by the Gramophone Company. He sued, claiming damages. He maintained that he was entitled not only to the…
ICL : US bid cannot be ruled out
From a high point last year of £3?10 the share price of International Computers (Holdings) Ltd. has dipped below £1·50 for the first time, with a pronounced decline coming in the…
Time and trade wait for no man
Keith MayesDuring the Depression people went round asking “Buddy, can you spare a dime?” By 1969 beggars on Broadway thought 20 cents the minimum donation. In the last few months, as they…
Portrait of the cartoonist as a young man: This month Victor Feather talks to Richard Brooks about his love of art
On the top floor of a multi‐storey office block in Bloomsbury is an art gallery. It may lack the fame of the Tate or the grandeur of the National, but to its curator it is the…
Our mutual friends
Bill WattsThis substantial and scholarly work by Professor Milton Derber deals with the concept of industrial democracy and its evolution in the United States during the period from…