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501. Feeding the patient (13:56)

Date:
1944
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Presents factors which affect appetite and digestion; preparation of the environment and the patient for the meal; proper balance of food and arrangement of the tray; individualized feeding care; a...

502. Improving the job (09:37)

Date:
1944
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A supervisor asks an employee for work-improvement suggestions; the employee talks the problem over with his father and sister, obtains their advice, and makes some worthwhile suggestions.

503. India (12:45)

Date:
1944
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Tells the complex story of India's social and political problems immediately after World War II. Shows the overcrowded conditions, how war with Japan brought to a head centuries of strife among va...

504. Introducing the new worker to his job (15:21)

Date:
1944
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Dramatization of how not to orient a new employee and get him started on his job; then by contrast, what should have been done.

505. Looking through glass (18:08)

Date:
1944
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Surveys the British glass manufacturing industry and shows the processes of purification and manufacture.

506. Maintaining workers' interest (12:36)

Date:
1944
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Explains that the job of the supervisor includes preventing problems caused by a worker's loss of interest in the job. Narration explains "one of the most powerful spurs to production is the intere...

507. New England (11:33)

Date:
1944
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Explains how industrialized New England, unable before the depression to compete with the cheap labor of the South and some foreign countries, diversified her economy and became a leader in such te...

508. Placing the right man on the job (12:28)

Date:
1944
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Dramatized cases of five different workers, unsatisfactory in particular jobs, who are reassigned to other jobs more suitable to their abilities and capacities.

509. Planning and laying out work (09:58)

Date:
1944
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A plant supervisor talks to his son, who has built a boat in the basement too large to go through the door, about planning a job in advance; and recounts several illustrative experiences at the plant.

510. Supervising women workers (11:19)

Date:
1944
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A line supervisor discusses with a foreman his problem in supervising the women in his department. The fact is brought out that the same rules apply in supervising both men and women, but that wome...