Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safety valve for some of the businessmen, economists, laborites at work on U.S. defense in Washington is the National Planning Association. More of a seminar than an association, NPA gives such men as OPM's Deputy Production Director William L. Batt, Labor Bureau Statistician and Machine-Tool Expert A. Ford Hinrichs, the Federal Reserve Board's (and Harvard's) Alvin Hansen a chance to get together, pool ideas. Published last week was a caustic NPA summary of what was talked about and concluded at a recent session...
...clear that we will give less tools to Britain if we join in the war? The solution is not for us to go to war but to give her every tool that will readily serve her regardless of our own preparedness...
...Navy's program is going fairly well because it got started in peacetime, but naval constructors now see harder days ahead. Competing for limited U.S. shipways are 661 seagoing commercial vessels. The machine-tool bottleneck caused by aircraft and ordnance speed-up is beginning to tighten on the Navy. Naval shipbuilders are expanding 50%, 100%, 200%. Said a worried admiral last week: "It won't be enough, I'm afraid." In morale, in guts and ability to fight with what they have, the Navy's officers and men cannot be excelled. The quality of its command...
...President said he hoped that enough labor could be found to avoid increasing individual working hours. But many an employer was less optimistic. In the machine-tool industry, more than 95% of employes have been working overtime: an average of 12½ hours a week. Since no employer would pay out that much overtime if he could help it, this was a sure sign that the long-expected labor bottleneck was now a potent fact. Immediately after the President's statement, Knudsen-Hillman asked industry workmen to substitute bonuses for vacations in defense plants this summer. Draft headquarters disclosed...
...solution," he said, is not for us to go to war but to give her (Britain) every tool that will really aid her regardless of our preparedness...