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...Axel Johnson, Swedish-born 45-year-old, designed a pattern change that saves enough steel in a year to make 44,000 bayonets, will cut man-hour time on production of cargo-vessel electrical parts by 10%. Award...
...know-how of assembly-line engineers has cut a two-hour job of rifle boring to a ten-minute operation; a 400-man-hour assembly time on anti-aircraft guns to a 15-minute...
...position to say 'We need so-and-so many ,50-calibre machine guns.' What we now say is: 'We need every .50-calibre machine gun that can be produced by the total coordination of every pound of material, every inch of factory space and every man-hour of work that can be mobilized...