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Mulvihill also clarified another statement made Monday concerning his negotiations with the University. While he said he was pleased student porters received a five cents an hour increase, he did not mean to endorse the porter system. The students have not the know-how to produce work up to the standards of the maids, he stated...
When it comes to criticizing Soviet bureaucracy, no Westerner can be so merciless as the Communists themselves. Last week Pravda took after O.K.B., the government's Experimental Design Bureau, which supplies industrial know-how not otherwise borrowed from the West. Samples...
Problems & Know-How. Why are machine-tool builders so far behind? One reason is that the machine-tool industry must literally lift itself by its bootstraps; it must make its own tools before it can start producing them for anyone else. Another is that at war's end the U.S. Government sold 300,000 surplus tools at 15?on the dollar, and swamped the market. For five years, machine-tool production slumped. Thus, when the Korean war broke, producers were deluged with orders for replacement tools as well as for the new types needed for the weapons of modern...
...produced under the same roof. "A large proportion of the manufacturing space could readily be made available for either purpose" with equipment and workers transferred quickly from one type of work to the other. In times of limited defense production, manufacturers could maintain pilot lines, continually updating their know-how for turning out military products on an all-out schedule. Then if all-out war came, the U.S. would be sure of all-out war production-and in time...
...together with its 1,030 wells and its other installations (including the refinery at Barranca Bermeja), without paying a centavo. Also, the Colombian government showed the world's oilmen that it is willing to do business fair & square-a good thing for Colombia, which needs foreign capital and know-how to help get its oil out of the ground...