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Show Attention to Little Matters Brought Surprising Results Once a story was widely circulated on how the United States government saved money by cutting out the blue stripes on mail bags. No one knew just why they were there except that they always had been. The suggestion contained in the story was taken up by some business firms, and was actively ac-tively advanced by the Boston chamber cham-ber of commerce, which issued a booklet book-let containing communications from industrial in-dustrial and commercial concerns telling tell-ing how they cut out the "blue stripes" in their lines. One manufacturer saved $500 by regrinding and mixing of a year's accumulation of inks of various colors and quantities for use in printing print-ing office forms. Another concern added a one-ton truck to its larger tonnage truck fleet and saved ?G,000 a year by using the new addition for small city jobs. . Still another company found it could save $10,000 a year by selling its automobile trucks and contracting for hauling. Another concern found that by giving fountain pens to employees it could save in ink alone ten times the annual investment in fountain pens. |