Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charlie Wilson also has set in motion a big expansion program in the machine tool industry, which has been hobbled by a shortsighted OPS pricing policy and delays in priorities for materials. By assuring manufacturers higher prices, Wilson hopes within a year to increase annual machine tool output from $675 million to handle orders of $2.9 billion, get jet production kiting. When engine production matches aircraft output, Boyer may speed aircraft production by freezing designs. As in World War II, he may set up modification centers, i.e., places where minor changes and improvements can be made in finished planes without...
...mother-in-law and three
children. The house is 14 ft. wide, 9 ft. deep, has no water. Rent: $45
a month, later reduced by the rent-control office to $35.
SMALL WEAPONS: Production of the new 3.5-in. bazooka is so high that cutbacks have been ordered. Tied in with the airborne's effort to lighten all equipment, several new items have been developed. Among them: a new entrenching tool, four pounds lighter than the old; an aluminum-nylon helmet, 8% lighter; new tropical combat boots, 3/4 Ib. lighter. Also due to be lightened: rifles, pistols, machine guns and ammunition...
Labor shortages in general are not a problem, but there is a crying need for specialists: engineers, machinists, tool & die makers, molders and pattern makers, etc. The engineering shortage is the most acute. Last year U.S. colleges and universities turned out 52,000 engineers. This year 38,000 will be graduated. The 1952 forecast...
...tool of the "American aggressor...