Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infiltrating U.S. factories, beaming and slavering with wicked satisfaction but doing no good to Japan. They are all versions of one & the same little Jap, Douglas. Aircraft Co.'s gargoyle-like cartoon character, "The Tokio Kid." Created as part of the company's drive to reduce tool breakage and waste, the Kid appears on posters that show broken drills, cracked cogwheels, mixed-up rivets, piles of scrap. "Bust tool make soooo happy, thank you," is the main theme of his left-handed sentiments...
...feel that the Kid is responsible for a reduced ratio of waste and for redoubled suggestions from employes. Two of the posters have been lithographed and distributed to 7,000 Douglas suppliers, also to some 450 other industries. Among the firms using Tokio Kid posters are Vultee Aircraft, Diamond Tool, Chrysler, Remington Rand, Westinghouse, Western Electric, Carnegie-Illinois Steel. No other wartime Industrial poster has caught on like the Kid. This week the Treasury began using him to sell war bonds...
...pint-sized gun that shoots a spray of molten metal is saving U.S. wartime industry hundreds of thousands of dollars and hours of labor. The Army & Navy have 750 of these hot-metal guns in use this week. Aircraft makers are using thousands. The new tool is indispensable in 1) the manufacture of airplanes; 2) their maintenance by the Army & Navy; 3) the repair of ailing machinery which, owing to the dearth of metals and machining facilities, would be scrapped or stand idle...
...Steel Foundry has upped production 20% with 200 workable employe suggestions since January. Elgin Watch Co. (at Elgin and Aurora, Ill.) has seen its fuse plant zoom to 65% above its production quota in the two months its shop committee has been in existence. Aurora's Independent Pneumatic Tool Co. has seen a 21% production increase, is hauling in 100 new production ideas a week-and paying for good ones at the low rate of one $5 defense stamp apiece, because the committee asked the company not to pay more...
...shrewdest aspects of the maneuver was its propagandistic effect. Once again, in plainest terms, the U.S. had informed the people of France that Pierre Laval could not be trusted; that he was an Axis tool; that Americans would help Frenchmen anywhere under any circumstances except when they willingly give outright aid to Hitler...