Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naked steel flank was cluttered with huts, tool houses and catwalks; the workmen called them "Normandieville." Last week Normandieville was coming down, and a big new grandstand was going up on the elevated highway which skirts the piers. The Navy was getting ready for the raising of the Normandie, burned Feb. 9, 1942, which had never sailed under her Navy name-U.S.S. Lafayette...
...phase of our life here at Briggs, but occasionally we have to be reminded that there is a penalty for returning late from leave that even the best of WAVES may be good housekeepers in the eyes of the Navy, and that we "can be wrong" and often tool...
...read. Since 1930 lean, leathery Frank Laubach, a Congregationalist missionary, has made considerable headway with that enormous task. He and unnumbered thousands of other people, using his special teaching charts, have armed unknown and unknowable scores of thousands of Asiatics, Africans and Latin Americans with the double-edged tool of literacy...
...Consolidated Aircraft's 700 handi capped workers, for example, have the best attendance record in the plant. One small company has had such success with handicapped workers that they now com prise the majority of the employes : about 75 of the 85 workers at Minneapolis' C. & F. Tool Co. are handicapped...
...Plumpish, diplomatic Ray R. Rausch, 49, most affable, best-liked of all top Ford men, now boss of the sprawling Rouge plant. Rausch came to Ford from Timken-Detroit Axle Co. in 1921, to run engineering, tool design and construction, later headed the important salvage department, was elevated to Rouge boss in 1933. A quick and practical improviser, Rausch often steps out of Rouge to solve problems in other parts of the empire. As a production man, he is second only to tall, handsome Charles E. Sorensen. When a shortage of fabricated steel threatened to halt Willow Run construction, Rausch...