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Four months before Pearl Harbor, he had been adjusting washers on the final assembly line, when the foreman switched him to a new line-hydraulic wheel retractors for aircraft. The swift scrambling of the plant's orderly insides had made Emil blink. His work week had jumped from 40 to 84 hours. Emil had hardly been able to see the fat overtime pay checks. But as the plant clanked out of its surprise, the hours came back to a reasonable 48, and Emil was again earning his usual dollar an hour, plus time and a half...
Then the draft started to work. Out of the 500 men who had built washers, 450 vanished. Some 850 green hands, mostly women, had taken their places. By 1943, Emil received a 12?-an-hour raise. It was stage money-taxes and prices had already driven his living standard to an all-time...
When he switched to searchlights in 1943, Bridgeport-born Emil Koch was nearly ready to bolt for the California shipyards. But last week, with the papers full of unemployment alarms, he was glad his wife had held him back...
Peace & Competition. Emil needs G.E., and right now G.E. definitely needs Emil...
...minute he finished his last searchlight, he walked a few hundred yards to the final washer assembly and was back at peacetime work. The whole 160,000-man G.E. organization from president to foremen to typists had pointed for this moment. Like other key men, Emil had to be reconverted before most of the 32 other U.S. appliance manufacturers got going, and before the customers beat down the doors...