Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could it be done? In the whole U.S. there are 85,000 training stations (each station: a lathe, drill press or other machine at which a worker can be trained in one skill). Even working in three shifts, turning out partly trained mechanics in six to eight weeks, they were not enough. But Colonel McSherry had a plan...
...hand can be taught to run a lathe (a machinist's first lesson) in six to eight weeks at school. Then he graduates to a factory, begins at once to produce on his lathe. Thereafter he progresses, under instruction from a factory foreman and in night school, to drill press, shaper, planer, grinder, milling and screw machine. Advantages of this system: 1) training is much faster, 2) trainees produce while they learn, 3) fewer teachers are needed...
...redesigned a 50-year-old pipe-threading machine into a milling machine, a 40-year-old spindle drill press into a vertical milling machine. To start production he hired five Ohio Pen ex-convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs.* His other employes include students from Ohio State's engineering school, a neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling...
...orphaned at eleven, at 16 went to work as a machinist. During World War I he machined for the U.S. Navy; after the Armistice he got his job at the Pen. Because his wife and daughter were interested in outboard motor racing, Homer Price in 1923 bought a bench drill press and lathe, installed them in his dining room, made parts for outboard motors which he sold commercially. (That is how the Cleveland Pump people heard about him.) His wife "is more at home in a machine shop than in a kitchen," can do any job in the shop...
...there was no shirking yesterday, and President Conant was treated to a full-fledged, spirited drill by what someone has titled the "Singing Harvards." There was, however, a new tone about the practice, a tone which has been present all this week. Harlow no longer sought to create a team which could meet and beat anything which came along, but rather an eleven which could take its only existing enemy into camp...