Word: cancelations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the hatchet work was revived; Shipbuilder Kaiser and Flyer Hughes stormed into Washington. They had good reason: WPB was casting a cold and fishy eye on the three-plane contract, had a good mind to cancel...
...shortage is needlessly complicated by having labor and production balanced by two committees, one run by WPB, one by WMC. But Byrnes, following recommendations by Bernard Baruch (see p. 19), gave them a potent weapon lacking in Buffalo-authority to cancel less essential contracts, if necessary, to create a labor pool and thus funnel the workers into the top priority industry-aircraft...
...Woman Pays. Tiremaker Burke had been watching the industrial situation closely. He saw a pinch coming soon in tiremaking facilities. Last month he hustled to Washington, convinced WPB that it would be wise to cancel the lease and reconvert The Kelly to tires. Other ordnance plants took on The Kelly's orders, and just 12 days after the deal was made, the first workers were laid off. Within two weeks, the layoffs will jump to 2,000, will crescendo until, in three weeks, the payroll will be slashed approximately 75%, leaving the basic staff needed to install tiremaking equipment...
...also talked about a new extract of penicillium mold, penicillin B (the original penicillin must henceforth be called penicillin A). Penicillin B's attack is exactly opposite to A's-it supplies bacteria with too much oxygen. The two should never be used together, as they might cancel each other out. Researchers at St. Louis University who isolated the new penicillin B claim that it is ten times as effective as penicillin A, but even rarer...
...must fight are the painfully crowded transportation system, soaring prices and low military pay, appalling housing shortages and bru tal rent gouges, plus the thousand and one exasperating accidents of fortune-the missed connections, wrong addresses, misunderstanding of directions or appointments, the unpredictable changes in military orders which can cancel out months of planning and thousands of miles of travel...