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...Navy no longer reveals specific items on which it intends to spend the country's cash. Its new ships may range from 75-ft. torpedo boats to 45,000-ton battlewagons. To build them, shipyard facilities will have to be mightily increased. For shipyards alone, Congress has authorized an additional $750,000,000 (two Panama Canals...
...single opposition vote was cast by lank-haired, intense James Maxton, one of Parliament's three ultra-left Independent Laborites who represent Glasgow's shipyard workers.* More important, 67 of those present did not vote at all. And as far as a large part of Parliament was concerned, the vote was not wholehearted; it just seemed necessary. Afterward Winston Churchill's many critics went right on criticizing...
Thus the Danish immigrant who started out as a shipyard worker at $1.75 a day, rose to the $350,000-a-year presidency of the nation's biggest manufacturing corporation, handed over command of the U.S. war effort to a locomotive engineer's son from Hannibal, Mo., who had wanted to be a professor of chemistry, but who became, as the $70,000-a-year manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., the country's No. 1 mass-buyer...
With red, weepy eyes, steel and shipyard workers on the West Coast have been flocking to doctors by the hundred. By last week, the mysterious eye epidemic had spread from Portland to the San Francisco Bay area, affected at least 2,000 workers. One reason for the rapid increase : welders use each other's tools, gloves, goggles...
Apart from its appeasement of labor, the Bedaux system is basically the same. It is not a "system" but an efficiency-engineering service, with each plant a fresh problem. Its engineers are most successful in diversified plants with a multiplicity of operations. A shipyard is down the Bedaux alley, a well-planned auto assembly line is not. At U.S. Steel's Gary plant, Bedaux engineers increased repair department personnel 10%, claim to have upped efficiency 80%. In a steel foundry making tank parts, production jumped from 300 to 1,000 tons monthly while man-hours per ton were...