Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...automobile industry will be expected to manufacture mainly things on wheels, and engines. . . . The men who have been building airplanes for the last 20 years, however, can do a better job [with air craft] than...
...Sold down the river," wailed Chairwoman Mary T. Norton of the House Labor Committee. But Bill Green could consider that he had not got the worst of the bargain. The Wagner Act's broad declaration of bargaining policy remained intact; Federation craft unions were protected against rulings by the National Labor Relations Board in favor of industrial unions. Howard Smith also kept most of what he wanted: permission for employers to talk (but not act) against unions; a new board, reduced in power and tied up in enough strings to choke it well-nigh to death. All that Green...
Meanwhile the Royal Navy, with the willing help of countless merchant seamen and a host of volunteers, strained every nerve and every effort and every craft to embark the British and Allied troops...
...biggest independent U. S. steel fabricators, Ingalls Iron Works began looking for new markets for its product early in Depression I. Leasing part of a shipyard at Mobile, later building a yard of its own at Decatur, Ala., it began turning out barges, towboats, all manner of river craft. Prime mover of this sideline was big, nervous Robert Ingersoll Ingalls Jr., only son of Ingalls Iron Works' shrewd, crusty, hard-working president, who likes to say that he founded his business in 1910 "with a nigger, a mule and a wooden crane. ..." Pleased with his new sidelines, Father Ingalls...
...rates down, Grover Loening had a plan which he had set forth in bookkeeping detail in his brief to CAA. First step to air-express service, said he, is air-express planes: efficient freight-luggers built without the doodads of passenger craft, thus capable of carrying a bigger payload on the same horsepower. Airline men gasped when he first said that 345 8-ton airplanes could carry all the express now handled by the railroads, gulped when he figured out for them that a fat profit could be made at rates 1½% times rail rates. Urged by Loening...