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...Packard Local 190 (U.A.W.-C.I.O.), a unioneer who realizes that the only way to win the war is with more and faster production. In a two-month series of confabs, the two men pounded the original idea into the "Work to Win" program. Chief program points: 1) a speedup of machines rather than men; 2) individual recognition for work well done; 3) whoop...
...manager has found that when women are good they are better than men. They are more painstaking as inspectors, are nimbler with their fingers, don't fret or get bored with repetitious work, are generally quicker, are particularly good in assembling small parts. Feminine dexterity acts as a speedup in many a plant where men are challenged to work harder in competition...
...took Henry Kaiser's West Coast yards to slap together Liberty ships. One yard will build 21 destroyers this year-equivalent, says the Navy, to 105 Liberty ships. Prior to 1940, building time for a DD was 27-28 months. In 1942: eight months. Other samples of the speedup...
Hospitals, according to the report, were more efficient too, hustled patients out in an average of twelve days, two days less than the average hospital stay in 1935. Estimated savings through speedup...
...every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...