Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detail-ridden Donald Nelson, chief of the War Production Board, gave trusted Deputy James S. Knowlson full power over priorities, turned WPB's machine-tool branch into a full-fledged division...
Mihailovich and his hardy warriors have faced not only huge odds, but also staggering tool and supply problems. Most of their arms were Yugoslav army equipment hauled hastily into the mountains before the Germans advanced beyond Belgrade. Since then a little matériel has been dropped by parachute to Mihailovich, and some smuggled into Serbia from dissident elements in the Hungarian army...
...Very few of the 13.000,000 new workers are trained for work in the war industries that need them. In skilled labor the easy arithmetic surplus becomes an alarming deficit. Most serious labor shortages are in the metalworking and industrial machinery trades, shipbuilding, aircraft, tool and ordnance manufacture. For every available ship and boatbuilding assembler, 94 are needed; for every available toolmaker, 31 are needed. Training labor will be one of the year's biggest jobs...
They all spoke English and had spent many years in the U.S. They were former waiters, machine-tool workers, painters, chauffeurs, butlers. One was a naturalized U.S. citizen, the youngest, 22-year-old Herbert Haupt, was U.S.-born. He had gone through Chicago's public schools, had been a cadet officer in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Most were in their late 30s. All had been active in the German-American Bund. In the years 1939-41 they had returned to Germany, aided by German diplomats and Nazi funds. Back in Germany they had volunteered or been drafted...
...slogan contests are being run as an integral part of the committees' work. Samples: "Speed the Wheels to Beat the Heels" (from an American Steel & Wire sloganeer); "Speed 'Em for Freedom" (Curtiss-Wright); "Jappy, We'll Knock You Slap Happy" (Cincinnati's Boye & Emmes Machine Tool...