Cheaper By the Dozen

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"Dad had enough gall to be divided into three parts." Dad was Frank B. Gilbreth, to the world a distinguished innovator in scientific factory management, and to his family of six boys and six girls a lively, unpredictable and wholly beloved autocrat. Their house in Montclair, New Jersey, was a sort of laboratory for the elimination of waste motions - "motion study" as the elder Gilbreth called it. The children made excellent, if occasionally unwilling, guinea pigs. Only a motion-study expert could have coped with their temperamental Pierce Arrow (nicknamed "Foolish Carriage").