Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...output of mines that produce nothing but gold (like Homestake and Natomas and Golden Cycle) just gets buried in the ground again, but it requires the labor of more than 7,000 miners, while copper production lags for lack of only 5,000 men. Hitch in this logical suggestion is that there is still no way to make sure that the disemployed gold miners would stop off at Butte instead of drifting on to West Coast shipyards. Nor is there as yet any national service law to stiffen the spine of Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission...
...Biggest hitch is personnel-good pilots and mechanics are harder to find than smooth airfields in Africa. But airline operators expect to squeak through the pilot shortage by giving jobs to 1) independent air taxi operators; 2) airmen from the Civil Air Patrol; 3) newly trained men. For more mechanics the airlines have turned to a brand-new mass training technique. In Kansas City, T.W.A. is training repair crew specialists in 60 days v. two years for old-line, all-round aviation mechanics. Only drawback: the 1942 model mechanic knows, for example, only the radio, or the ignition system...
Sports fishermen are also hamstrung by wartime restrictions. Last year in Long Island Sound they landed more summer flounder than all commercial fishermen; in some parts of Puget Sound the private salmon catch far outweighs the industrial catch. One hitch: a fat portion of the sport catch is usually wasted; sportsmen can neither sell nor give it all away...
Like the oldtime housewife who used to hitch the cradle to her rocking chair, letting the motion of the chair rock the baby, U.S. airplane motormakers last week were harnessing airplane engines to generators-thus just about licking the serious wartime shortage in electricity. One Midwest motor plant is generating several million kilowatt hours a month, more than half the power needed to run the plant at capacity...
...This hitch in plans was forced onto the scene by the present overcrowded condition of University dining halls which have already accepted the additional burden of feeding military units now at Harvard. It was also unanimously agreed that restaurants in the Square could not adequately care for the influx of such a large group...