Word: shiftly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know exactly how far they must bore. (Long John expects to get through in four months.) To help his men Long John several years ago designed and built a huge, seven-ton drill carriage which uses six bits instead of four. Added incentives are high wages and bonuses, three-shift operations. Most effective of all, Long John is the kind his men understand. He can drink them under the bar on nights off, is uproarious with barroom jokes...
...paper profession change gradually under the impact of powerful influences: the Depression, the rise of the American Newspaper Guild, the invasion of city rooms by women, the development of news magazines, the counterpull of radio, the expansion of government information agencies. The change he believes most important is the shift in emphasis from factual, objective news reporting to a standard of mixing opinion with fact to approximate full truth. Says he: "If you mean by objectivity absence of convictions . . . [and] uncritical acceptance of things as they are ... the hell with...
...squeeze on canners, New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey allotted $200,000 to spread instructions on home canning throughout the state to preserve a maximum amount of food. Also before Governor Dewey was the report of his Emergency Food Commission. Gist of the report: the nation must shift from a meat to a grain diet, must stretch its grain crops to the last ounce by feeding them directly to people instead of to livestock to be converted to meat. (The average hog takes seven pounds of corn to produce one pound of table pork...
Down Profits. WPB's piano ban was mainly laid down to force the highly skilled piano craftsmen into war work. The shift has been unprofitable, from the management view. Payrolls have risen sharply, but earnings are down. Recently Rudolph Wurlitzer Co., biggest U.S. maker of pianos, reported a net profit of $1.63 per share for the last fiscal year, way under the $2.48 of 1941. Only cheer for manufacturers: the thousands of new piano players should make for the greatest market in their history...
...tools), Milwaukee (mill parts), Los Angeles (planes) and many others are industrial cities geared to supply the world. They are world cities in terms of needed materials, as well. The appetite of advanced industry for special metals, special fibers, special chemicals to serve the home market alone may even shift the balance and force the U.S. to export to pay for its imports...