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Word: ternstedt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Idle? Walter Reuther's statement that the booming automobile industry had any idle capacity or labor was news to most people. Planner Reuther cited three empty factories in Detroit with 554,000 square feet of idle space. He named companies (Fisher Body, Chevrolet, Ternstedt) which had recently laid off skilled workers or put them at unskilled labor, declared that not more than half the industry's total capacity was actually at work. He also assumed that individual auto-makers would have to be compelled to pool their resources and talents, perhaps delay their own new models while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: A PLAN FOR PLANES | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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