Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Railroad carloadings in the July 12 week were 876,000 cars, 19% above 1940. Nationwide lumber output was 20% above 1940. First six months' machine-tool production was a record $348,000,000, 93% above 1940. Weekly oil output was up 9% over 1940. But with the industry about to lose 100 tankers (see p. 66), it faced a serious problem in how to get all this oil to market...
...vain attempt to soothe the angry M.P.s, a spokesman for the Supply Ministry broke into the debate to announce that plane and tank production for the second three months of 1941 was double what it was at the end of 1940, that machine-tool production was six times normal...
...Revised its controls over machine tools (which was the first industry to get industry-wide priorities) by giving new "urgency standings" to defense plants which the Army and Navy want tooled up first. Under the old system, all manufacturers with A-1-a-1 rating got equal treatment on machine-tool deliveries. Now they will be distinguished in effect as Aiai, A-1-a-2, etc., will form a line within a line. Manufacturers of other machine tools, cutting tools, gauges and micrometers get first call even over defense plants...
...Africa's famed mines) covers 44 acres, extends at least 200 feet underground. Chief difficulty in operating it: the cost, at-U.S. wage rates, of washing the 14,500,000 lb. of clay and rock it takes to extract a single pound of diamonds. Since the machine tool industry uses diamonds (world's hardest mineral) for cutting, this difficulty would be unimportant if control of the world's diamond supply, now tightly held by a British monopoly, should ever pass into Nazi hands...
Last December, as these three entered the gates of the air station, the machine tool was still abuilding. On the right were dozens of pearl-grey barracks with colonial facades, long mess halls and groundschool buildings; on the left, mammoth hangars skirting the vast bare landing field. Now, just six months later, the arid newness is gone. Grass grows beside the streets, palm and pine spot the once dusty table land. The 200 cadets who stream in each month from the odds & ends of civilian life see a brisk hustle of officers and trainees in their khaki service uniforms...