Word: boosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three months Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. has been frantically hunting for 9,000 more workers to boost lagging Flying Fortress production (TIME, Aug. 2, et seq.). Scouts were dispatched into the Middle West to lure workers to Boeing; the War Manpower Commission asked Puget Sound shipyards to lay off some 14,000 men; patriotic Seattlites went from door to door begging housewives to take jobs; a giant rally was held in the University of Washington stadium. Result: last week Boeing was swamped, had to turn job-seekers away. Boeing still needs some 5,000 to 6,000 workers...
...simple explanation. Skyrocketing war production knocked peacetime measuring sticks into the statistical ashcan. Example: the chemical industry. In peacetime, chemical production weighs little in FRB's scales. Thus, when the industry mushroomed under astronomical orders for explosives, the FRB index failed to show it. To rectify this, FRB boosted the statistical importance of this industry, added some 20 others to the index and found new yardsticks, e.g., in the converted rubber industry, man-hours worked replaced the former measure of activity-rubber consumption. All this forced FRB to boost the index 36 points to 243 (1935-39 average equals...
...Order of Lenin. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov; the town of Nolinsk. Molotovsk; the Red Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor: Hero of Socialist Labor...
Pulmotor Department. To help revive Brewster, Kaiser installed his tall, bespectacled son, Henry Jr., who has been Kaiser's eyes and legs on many a West Coast project, as administrative assistant. His job: to kill off the hex. Then the War Labor Board gave Kaiser a mighty boost by designating an arbiter to settle disputes on the spot, and put Brewster's union on probation for six months. With this solid backing, Kaiser sat down with the tough, headstrong boss of the Brewster union, Tom De Lorenzo,* got from him a promise that the union would cooperate...
...courage, efficiency. Iris is more of an artist's model. She shanghaies Maisie's pilot into betrothal. She is even more bored than Maisie with the richly kidded clubs for "Ladies in Waiting" (girls who are waiting for servicemen to come home) which are set up to boost the morale of women war workers. She gets her unbound hair caught in the plant machinery and is fired. She sobs Maisie out of $20 and her fiance out of $100, steals Maisie's suitcase, slip and nylons. Then she departs with the bolt & nut man for the Cottonwood...