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...thousand miles from the nearest seacoast, in a converted stove factory in landlocked Kokomo, Ind., Globe American Corp. is building lifeboats for the merchant marine. Its assembly line, which makes one 3,500-lb. boat every two hours, "launched" its 220th boat this week...
...there is still an untapped source of skilled labor: misfits. An inventory of skills would show how many workers can be upgraded to more skilled jobs at once, without training. As Detroit has done with its engineers (TIME, March 31), Kokomo, Ind. (pop. 33,795) last week counted returns from a survey of its skilled labor resources...
...mayor and the Employment Security Office manager first got a check list of 187 occupations from Washington. They organized a committee from the local A.F. of L., C.I.O., churches, Chamber of Commerce. They distributed 14,000 lists throughout Kokomo-to policemen, janitors, defense workers, drugstore cowboys. The first returns showed a big supply of skills going to waste in the wrong jobs. One early estimate: 40% of Kokomo labor can be upgraded. For instance...
...Kokomo hoped by its census to get more defense orders (its seven big factories had only $3,000,000 worth), thus to stave off priorities unemployment. In the process it resurrected the fact that the U.S. is a land of skills, and that there is more than one way to break a bottleneck...
Olin R. Holt of Kokomo, Ind. might have been among the mayors testifying in Washington had he not been turned out of office by Kokomo's voters last November. Last week, Olin R. Holt was convicted, with five other Kokomen, of diverting WPA labor to private enterprise. Mr. Holt spent seven months in Leavenworth eight years ago for protecting bootleggers, regained his civil rights in 1934 when Franklin Roosevelt gave him a full pardon...