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...auto workers it meant a layoff before arms production could employ them-and last week Detroit argued about how long that would be. "Several months to a year," said United Automobile Workers President R. J. Thomas...
General Motors expects to employ 450,000 persons (previous top: 303,000); Ford 200,000, including 25,000 women among the 100,000 employes of its bomber plant; Chrysler-130,000 compared to its previous high of 65.000. The correspondents wrote about production lines miles long. . . . Chrysler making at least $675,000,000 worth of tanks, planes and guns in 1942. . . . Ford with eleven miles of airplane runways at Willow Run . . . eleven miles of statistics which all boil down to the biggest, the best, the fastest, the most...
Taken at its face value, the Declaration was impressive. If the signing nations could actually employ their "full resources," their power would be staggering. Their combined populations came to almost 1,500,000,000 of the world's 2,145,000,000. They held twice as much of the world's steel capacity as the Axis, most of its wheat, most of the materials needed for making war or prospering in peace. But half of the nations were small, isolated, scattered from Costa Rica to Luxembourg. Eight of them had been overrun by the Axis. Two-China...
Fireside Chats. At the White House that afternoon President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill renewed their conferences. First upshot: 26 nations of the New and Old Worlds formally pledged themselves to employ their full resources against the Axis powers and to enter into no separate armistice or peace...
Direct war industries, figures OPM, now employ 4,000,000 workers, by June will employ 6,000,000, by June 1943, 9,000,000. Of these, only 25% can be unskilled. So serious was the skill shortage in machine tools that Ford Hinrichs, acting chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, began talking about the need for "organized piracy" -i.e., a sort of priority on skills (he did not say labor conscription...