If a huge order is placed or cancelled, if government edict limits prices or hours of work or wages, if a supplier furnishes un-usable material, or if the employee of a utility march off the job, the result is personal not only to the vice president of sales, not merely to the purchasing agent, but often to the entire body of employees. Lay-offs, stabiliza-tion of wage payments, unscheduled changes in the production program—all those and more result, and closely affect sweepers and super-intendents alike.