Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spurring Mr. Roosevelt's attack on industry's weekend and night-shift blackout were many a fact & figure on equipment which could produce far more. Examples from machine-tool plant reports which are in the hands of Washington defensemen...
...Only 20 of the 67 included in the report were operating three shifts; 43 were on two shifts; four were still on a single shift...
...Even plants on more than one shift usually had most of their workers on the first, frequently used the others just to enable one department to catch up with another. In the 67 plants there were 33,236 workers on the first shift, 10,541 on the second, only 3,035 on the third...
...Defense assistants concluded that only 20% of machine-tool plants approximated full employment, that the 67 plants could add 40% more workers (upping employment from 46,812 to 65,162) if two-or three-shift operation were used to maximum advantage...
Latest unofficial reports from England seem to indicate a shift in opinion. It now appears that a declaration of war by this country would be distinctly desirable from the English point of view for two reasons. One is the obvious psychological effect which such a declaration would have upon the Axis and also upon Turkey and the Balkans. The second is a conviction apparently prevalent that unless this country is put upon a complete war basis very soon, labor disputes and tie-ups are going to have a disastrous effect upon the projected aid so desperately needed by Britain...