Where did the term “Can Do” come from?
We found an August 1955 TigeReview publication with an article referring to an employee strike (we are not sure which one as there are a few issues of the 1955 TigeReview missing), but the headline of the article clearly reads:
FTL Meets Strike with “Can-Do”
One clearly defined picture comes into sharp focus when the story of FTL is recorded during the days of the strike and an old timer in the company recorded it when he said: “You know what it all reminded me of—the work everybody was doing and the way they went at it? It reminded me of the days in Long Beach when we started. Everybody worked like hell, there was a minimum of griping and we did a job even when we didn’t know if it could be done. That was it, the spirit, the cooperation.”
This Tiger Can-Do Spirit never left us, in all the years following this 1955 article. “Can-Do” became a bit of a corporate motto, and Tiger employees truly believed it.