Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finns Bow. For a fortnight the Finns had queued up before Government Alko-holiliike (liquor stores), which had suddenly opened after a long shutdown. They had drunk toasts to peace. Then, at last, under the eye of old Baron Carl Mannerheim, Prime Minister Antti Hackzell broadcast Nazi weakness to all the world: "It is not possible for Germany to give us sufficient help to stay...
Casualties. The shocks were small and dispersed, like news of casualties, which hits individual U.S. homes but does not move the nation. But at some point the cumulative effect of the plant shutdowns would show. In Philadelphia the Defense Plant Corp. had spent a reported $16,000,000 to build an up-to-the-minute plant for Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co., to turn out an order for some 800 stainless-steel Army & Navy cargo planes. With only four planes built, the Services cancelled their contracts for all but 25. WPB talked of new make-work contracts for Budd...
...blame? The Navy had botched the job. The Navy had confidently told WPB that it was giving the workers six weeks' notice. But stopping delivery of completed planes (at Brewster's assembly plant in Johnsville, Pa.) six weeks hence had meant the prompt shutdown of Brewster in Long Island City, which makes sub-assembly parts far in advance. The Navy, doing things its own way, had not troubled to find out how Brewster operated, before moving in on the kill. And Franklin Roosevelt's two high-powered agencies to handle reconversion (in WPB and OWM) had been...
...year-old trainees, under a new Army Specialized Training Reserve Program to begin on July 1. Now their jitters are back: the colleges may get only half that number-51,700 of the secondary-school students who passed the armed forces' March 15 qualifying test. Possible result: wartime shutdown of some small men's colleges...
...Shutdown. But Allied victories in North Africa and Sicily brought death to Mouat. Chrome could be shipped again more cheaply than Mouat could mill it. The mill closed down. Workers wandered off to work in Butte's copper mines. The Anaconda men who operated Mouat for the Government went back to their old jobs. All that was left in Mouat, three months after production began, were guards, maintenance men and their families, an occasional bear nosing through empty garbage cans, and old Bill Mouat and his wife...