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This was not enough. The companies went to Dalrymple, finally persuaded him to put some workers on an eight-hour day. But last week over 75% of Akron's rubber workers were still on a six-hour day. Even the union admits that per man output has not increased since Pearl Harbor...
...program sooner, for not utilizing all available shipways. Companies were accused of grabbing orders just to keep a comfortable backlog. Labor was lambasted for demanding double time for holiday work, for refusing to work ten-hour shifts. (Last week 1,000 workers at Richmond [Calif.] shipyards perversely staged a one-day walkout because they wanted ten-hour shifts instead of eight-hour...
...whom 75 per cent are now gone. Undergraduates took little more than the Far Eastern history courses. Today, there are only four candidates for the Ph.D. degree while about 100 undergraduates are taking courses, twice as many as in the fall. Chief attraction is Japanese 6b, the intensive eight-hour a week course, which prepares men for intelligence work...
...power and floor space do not worry planemakers. Making and assembling the 20,000 parts, 90,000 rivets of a big pursuit ship alone takes 20,000 man-hours. Thus the 60,000-plane program needs over a billion man-hours. This could be supplied by 500-600,000 men working 300 eight-hour days in 1942. Planemakers already have about 230,000 shop workers, plan to pull thousands more from training schools and civilian industries. In floor space, they hope to avoid huge plant additions by more subcontracting...
...were speeding up so fast they would hit 2,800 units monthly within a year. Current rate: 840. Meanwhile, Timken Roller Bearing (busy on Navy and tank gun mounts) told how it had planned full-time production 20 months ago. Timken's "anti-blackout" schedule uses three full eight-hour shifts, a fourth swing shift to keep equipment running 160 hours weekly, leaving eight hours a week for maintenance...