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...dropped to 3,962,000, said the National Industrial Conference Board, lowest since September 1930. Bureau of Labor Statistics' estimate of total employment (excluding farmers and soldiers) reached a record 38,278,000 at May's end, or about 1,400,000 above the 1929 peak...
...this war comes to be written, if it has to be written that it was lost, it may be because of the recalcitrance of the Aluminum Company of America." Grave looks became graver before Mead finished. His most dismaying statement: "It is estimated by the Services that the peak of their requirements ... of 100,000,000 lb. per month will be reached in March 1942 . . . production capacity in March 1942 will be 75,000,000 lb. . . . a shortage of 25,000,000 lb. per month. This still leaves no provision whatsoever for indirect military & civilian requirements. . . . Germany and the territory...
...Association of American Railroads President Pelley's contention that the industry should yank 20,000 idle tank cars off sidings, the oilmen replied that these cars were a normal reserve required for coming peak movements. They questioned whether the railroads had the motive power to haul any more tank cars, and suggested that a better solution was to use present equipment more efficiently, and to use more tank trucks on short hauls...
...Irish-American James Gerity Jr., 37, learned the plating business from his father in Toledo, branched out for himself in 1937 when he formed the Gerity-Adrian Mfg. Corp. (Adrian, Mich.). From 17 employes to begin with, he reached a peak of 960 early this year, plating door handles and radiator trimmings for automobiles, household hardware, etc. His basic manufacturing process reads like a roster of scarce materials: he uses nickel anodes for chrome-plating zinc die castings, which can't be made without aluminum. His best customer: General Motors, whose A. C. Spark Plug Co. can make...
Critical September and October, when the railroads will face their traffic peak, drew a bit nearer last week. And the U.S. transportation system tried to prepare...