[4] At National Cash Register Company (NCR) was put in charge of a workforce of 7.500 man for several years.
The Princeton Alumni Weekly in 1918 reported that "Charles U. Carpenter is the Vice-President and Manager of Works, of the Recording and Computing Machines Company of Dayton, Ohio.
So important was this work that it has been made the subject of a special bulletin by the Department of Labor, Imperial Munitions Hoard of Canada, and also by the Section on Industrial Training of the Council of National Defence at Washington.
that "one can but admire the wonderful systems of organization and management by which the enormous business interests of the United States are governed.
He observed, that "in the mind of the old-time manufacturer the word 'system' is indissolubly linked with that of horror of 'extra clerks'..."[9] Articles, a selection: