Word: pooled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well did Standard come out that the War Department wanted much more. Promptly Standard, whose capitalization is only around $3,000,000 and whose total gross in 1941 ran to $13,000,000, led in the formation of a pool of other steel fabricators to do the job. Today the pool comprises 28 companies, 31 plants, and turns put 51% of all tank armor plate made in the U.S. Equally important, the pool makes the plate of special steels which use no precious nickel...
Standard's improvisation of techniques, plus its pooling idea, is acknowledged by the War Department as one of the outstanding production jobs done during the war. Biggest shadow over the operation now is the semicompleted armor-plate mill which lumbering Carnegie-Illinois is putting up in the Chicago area. Desperate for equipment, Carnegie is casting envious eyes at machinery now used by the Stand ard pool. Question now before WPB is whether the pool has not made the new Carnegie plant superfluous...
...effort early. Last year she was the first woman to pilot a bomber to England. Last month she was in England again with more than a score of Cochran-trained women ferry pilots. Last week at Fort Worth, Texas, she threw her fierce energy into training a pool of women flyers for any noncombatant job in which the Army Air Forces can use them to replace...
...trainer for the woman flyers pool, Jackie Cochran works under Colonel Luke Smith, chief of Army Air Forces individual training, has no connection with the WAFS except to supply pilots. The first Cochran class opens in a fortnight, probably in Texas...
...people that Congress is allowing the Army requisite manpower, but making the proof so painless that it can not help the progress of the war. Congress has effectively postponed the controversial issue, induction of married men, until after elections by throwing a new group into the military pool, but if the O'Daniel amendment stands the new eligibles cannot be classed as military effectives. The second front, says Congress, can wait. Mr. Hitler take note...