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Nevertheless, Commissioner Studebaker was confident that the nation's school system could handle the new load. Its technical schools (including 155 engineering colleges) are the world's best-equipped (outstanding: Milwaukee Vocational School). They have 35,000 highly trained teachers, a $1,250,000,000 plant. Normally they...
But just as vital to the country's defense will be the training of workers in war industries. The U. S. Office of Education, which has long conducted a program of vocational training, annually turns out an approximate 500,000 men skilled as lathe operators, welders, aircraft mechanics, machinists...
Actually, the War Industries Board had no specific legislative authority to fix prices. The vagueness of its powers, in fact, broke the health of its first chairman (Cleveland Lathe Maker Frank Scott) and caused its second (Railroader Daniel Willard) to resign. Not until Woodrow Wilson put Bernard Mannes Baruch in...
Resembling a lathe, the tabulator, rented by the University from the International Business Machines Company, adds, subtracts, multiplies, finds averages, makes lists, cross-correlates figures from different items of the poll, and would probably turn hand-springs, if the right buttons were pressed.
"I am a machinist by trade," Keller says today and many a Chrysler man has seen him prove it. So far as Walter Chrysler was concerned, he had proved he was much more than a good lathe-hand as far back as 1916 when President Chrysler of Buick (who had...