Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riveting angle bars through the wing tank and deck. They didn't have the size rivets I wanted, and there was a new bucker on the other end of them. I never knew when New Year's came. Down in the locker room when we went off shift everyone said 'Happy New Year.' I didn't go out and celebrate. I went home and went to bed. These days I usually sleep from about two o'clock till noon...
Since over 30,000 of Canada's gold miners are mining gold and nothing else (the rest are in multi-metal mines), since Canadian base-metal production is still not all on a full capacity basis and other war industries are short of labor, a shift of gold labor would make sense. So far Canada has received no Lend-Lease aid, but presumably will when it runs short of dollars...
...gold labor is being wastefully used. Rock-bound old General Smuts is having trouble enough keeping his Union together in the face of political opposition, race problems and fifth columning. Though South Africa may have to limp along with no new equipment, a likelier spot for a real labor shift is Rhodesia, with some 75,000 gold miners. Rhodesia's copper production is a military secret, but is said to be lagging (TIME, Nov. 17). More miners might help...
...arms manufacturers began to step up their operations to Franklin Roosevelt's 168-hour week, they ran into the most discouraging shortage of all: skilled labor. A spotty reality for months, it became serious when key industries like machine tool manufacture tried to add a third and fourth shift. In many cases foremen, lead men and supervisors have had to work 70 hours a week to keep things going...
...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 160 hours weekly, leaving eight hours a week for maintenance...