His team tried to, according to Frailey.
For example, they would include a lunch break for a crew if
immediately after, or before, they worked a passenger train.
They were not successful. The statement that "it was sort of like
picking up a handful of jello" attributed to Menk on page 108 means
simply that the data was not there to support what they wanted it to
support. It is analogous to trying to prove that the earth is flat.
You can't because it ain't, simple as that.
sjl
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Tom Smith <sd70mac@c...> wrote:
> "Stephen J. Levine" wrote:
>
> "According to Fred Frailey, W. Edwards Deming, the fellow who
taught
> the Japanese how to manufacture and put them ahead of the Americans
> for awhile, was hired by Menk to prove that the Zephyrs lost money."
>
>
> Did I not read, perhaps in Trains, that Deming cooked to data on
this
> one in order to get the desired results?
>
> Tom Smith
> Winfield KS
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