Word: rivetted
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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...
...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...
...would make a handsome profit for Distributor (and part owner) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Producer David Selznick (Selznick International), who split a reputed 70% of the box-office gross. And since the book on which it was based was the fastest selling U. S. novel, it would also copper-rivet GWTW as the all-time hard-cash classic...