Word: riveter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course to Denmark or Norway; refueled, made the return trip. Week in & out the British ships sank, with their loads of U. S. foods, supplies, war materials. The need for ships and ships and ships grew greater by the day; in the U. S. the Navy Yard workers' rivet hammers beat faster in the race against time-the undeclared war between the timetables of Franklin Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler...
Integration and flow were last week being worked out swiftly at Rouge. But human hands were needed to sort out, punch, weld, rivet, bolt, assemble. If there was a strike, human hands would close into fists, and sorting, bolting, assembling would cease...
...lateral-chiefly in floor space and men. Fixed costs per unit do not fall very fast that way. Last week Scripps-Howard Columnist Ernie Pyle described a trip through Buffalo's vast Curtiss-Wright plant, No. 1 U. S. producer of combat planes. Each of the 154,000 rivet holes in a P-40 was drilled by hand. Said he: "It is almost like building a house." Good planes may not be susceptible to mass production, but until they are, aircraft makers are not capable of mass-production profits...
...make good its boast that its new methods will revolutionize U. S. shipbuilding. In contrast with the machine-gun clamor of most shipyards, Pascagoula's noises are a sibilant hiss. Biggest plug for welding is the fact that one welder can do the job of a four-man riveting team-a big saving in labor (40% of shipyard cost). Ingalls welds complete stern assemblies, bow sections, etc. up to 75 tons on platforms in the yard, swings them into place with big gantry cranes. It reverses old-line shipbuilding techniques by laying decks on shored-up timbers, then attaching...
Although Germany built her famed 10,000-ton pocket battleships without using a single rivet, she kept secret her welding methods and their results. Until last week the only large all-welded U. S.-built ships were tankers. When the Exchequer steams away from her fitting-out dock, she will hold her first trial run over the U. S. Navy speed course off Guantanamo, Cuba. Reason: Navy and Maritime Commission officials are anxious to find out whether...