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...Hyser believes that the Army Dental Corps, "organized not as a rehabilitation agency but rather to take care of routine dental work," can hardly do more than a patch-up job. His solution is to set up some 40 clinics, each one fixing up 200 patients every six-hour day. Clinic personnel would include 75 dentists, 20 hygienists, six surgeons, four radiologists...
...backlog of munitions orders. Instead of the patriotic hustle & bustle which throbs in most defense-plant towns, Akron was a gigantic time bomb, relentlessly, awesomely ticking. Over the place hung a pall of suspicion, bitterness, hatred. Management and labor wrangled, sparred and fought. Root of the trouble is the six-hour day started by management during the depression, now grimly held by the union as a labor "asset...
Dalrymple's method is the six-hour day and a strict quota system which forces every member to work at the same speed. Thus while every factory pays piece rates, practically all banding department men earn $7.92 a day, all truck tire builders $8.90 a day. The men could earn more by turning out more units. But when one company wanted to boost the daily stint to 169 tire bands per man per day the union squashed it to 143 per day. Reason: a few men might not make the grade and get less money than others...
This was not enough. The companies went to Dalrymple, finally persuaded him to put some workers on an eight-hour day. But last week over 75% of Akron's rubber workers were still on a six-hour day. Even the union admits that per man output has not increased since Pearl Harbor...
...Pledge America, a six-hour, 45-minute show, was the longest in the Blue Network's history. The broadcast started at 9 p.m. Saturday and continued until 4 a.m. Sunday with only one 15-minute interruption (at 11, to let Ford's Earl Godwin repeat Watch the World Go By for Western listeners...