Word: toolings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic resurgence and reconstruction of the entire U. ,S. economy. He could see this clearly because he knew what would happen to U. S. business when 5,000,000 more pairs of shoes a year were suddenly ordered-he could see the hundreds of factories, the machine-tool plants, the nails, thread, leather, the railroad carloads of materials. He multiplied shoes by the 18,000-odd separate items he must buy for defense, from guns to butter, and got one sure answer: a revitalization of U. S. industry and therefore...
...World War II the U. S. machine-tool industry has acted on the assumption that it can supply guns and butter both. In its war-boomed growth from an output of $200,000,000 in 1939 to a probable output of $650,000,000 this year, the industry has turned out tools for new automobiles along with equipment for aircraft, tank and cannon builders. Last week machine-tool men were told that the butter business must stop...
...order, tagged "request," was issued by OPM's Priority Director Ed Stettinius. Effective March 2, he told machine-tool men, deliveries of machine tools may be made only to customers who have 0PM priority ratings, i.e., to manufacturers who will use them in defense work...
...plane designers; of Army intelligence officers' clerks who file, record or distribute in-&-outgoing secret or confidential matter for war plans, communications, the State Department; names of every U. S. motorboat owner, of confidential secretaries to President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull; names of all machine-tool makers...
...Detroit with 186 pounds of blueprints of an improved 25-tonner and a brand-new production problem. To work on the blueprints went 197 Chryslermen, led by Staff Master Mechanic Edward J. Hunt. Their first job: to go through the blueprints, get out a production line and a tool list, calculate production processes and finally lay out the building where the 25-tonners would be made. Driven by hardboiled, big-jawed Eddie Hunt, a mechanic and production man ever since he was old enough to hold a wrench in his big paws, they worked seven days a week, had things...