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...Southern shell plant had conveyor lines running lengthwise; when shells reached the end of one line they had to be carted by truck to the start of the next line. Knudsen revised the lines, made one start where the other ended. Said he: "Now throw your trucks out the window...
...Atlantic conveyor belt may start moving soon. According to reports published last fall, and in the Daily News last week, Army fields in Greenland are or soon will be ready for use. The Army already has airfields in Iceland, where U.S. Major General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel has taken over the command of all troops from Britain's Major General Henry Osborne Curtis. Last week General Curtis received the Distinguished Service Medal, first U.S. decoration awarded to a Briton in World...
...California has 536 girls (10% of its labor force). It started them filing off burrs, admitted them to training courses, promoted them to machine-shop operation, sheet metal, riveting, blueprint reading, inspection. Now they assemble all parts of the fuselage (but not the heavy engine). They slide under the conveyor; install power lines, electric systems, pedals, control parts; connect oil lines; rivet ailerons and stabilizers...
...Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...
Besides Brother Louis (business brains), 300 employes help turn out the Kahn blueprints. But old A. K. still passes on every one. Fifty different buildings may move, conveyor-belt-wise, over his desk in a day; he remembers their smallest details. Recently, A. K. celebrated the quickening pace of his business by giving shares in it to 25 old employes. If Defense booms his backlog as he expects, his fees should top $2,000,000 this year. Once a year Factory-Builder Kahn makes a concession to his artistic (10%) nature. He takes on a residence, and the firm, geared...