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...could tell how great the gap would be. But by week's end the British Government had already made moves to fill it, had tacked an additional $2,000,000,000 on its war budget, had announced that building and engineering industries would go on a seven-day, 50-hour week...
Your Government has decided on two broad policies. The first is...a seven-day week for every war industry. The second...rush additions to capacity by building more new plants, adding to old plants and using the many smaller plants...
...convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs.* His other employes include students from Ohio State's engineering school, a neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling machines, three grinders, a press, a power hacksaw. His original subcontract has been doubled...
...request hurt even worse: Six-or seven-day operations mean sharply upped overtime costs. One possible solution: add men to the second shift; perhaps start a third shift...
Even some railroad men are a little scared. Transportation Commissioner Ralph Budd himself last fortnight wrote a letter to all U.S. shippers calling for "new records in the volume of transportation rendered per unit of serviceable equipment," hinting gently at the possibility of seven-day operations. A.A.R. Vice President Buford has already told members that they will have to reduce the average turn-around on freight cars to 11.8 days, a new low record (best previous: 12 days), made even more difficult by the fact that intercoastal shipping diversion is enforcing much longer hauls...