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Ships. The Maritime Commission is optimistic. Actual merchant-ship launchings last month hit a 6,000,000-ton-a-year rate, only 2,000,000 tons below the President's 1942 goal. To reach it, shipbuilders will go on a seven-day week, add "a few" shipways to the present 406 (for ships over 300 ft.), draw needed labor from a 200,000-man pool now in training. Mass orders have enabled some yards to rationalize their production methods, approximate an assembly-line technique...
Metals. Aircraft-parts makers and other metal fabricators have been held back by the metals shortage, especially copper. So the mines of Anaconda, Phelps-Dodge and Miami last week jumped from a sixto a seven-day week. (Kennecott has operated day in, day out for more than a year.) Production increases in the first three companies alone will add perhaps 50,000 tons annually to the U.S. copper supply, an amount equal to 5% of 1940's entire U.S. production...
...seven-day operations can mean different things. Anaconda miners now work six days but on overlapping shifts so that the mines are never idle. Phelps-Dodge had planned to put its miners on a straight seven-day week, but crashed head-on with the C.I.O. The Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Union's complaint: a man's efficiency declines rapidly if he is overworked. The union's proposal: increase the force and use three full 40-hour shifts, then install air-conditioning for still more efficiency...
...drove Lessing Rosenwald, OPM's Conservation Chief, to announce a house-to-house drive at week's end. The Steelmakers meanwhile began getting more steel into munitions by cancellation of civilian orders and rearranging mill schedules. More than that they cannot do because steelmaking is a seven-day continuous operation and they were already working near capacity...
Ford, still honeymooning with the U.A.W., asked its men to work a seven-day week until additional men could be trained. It got "unanimous response." OPM announced this week that U.S. tank makers (Chrysler, American Locomotive, American Car & Foundry) were speeding up so fast they would hit 2,800 units monthly within a year. Current rate: 840. Meanwhile, Timken Roller Bearing (busy on Navy and tank gun mounts) told how it had planned full-time production 20 months ago. Timken's "anti-blackout" schedule uses three full eight-hour shifts, a fourth swing shift to keep equipment running...