Word: twi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipbuilding alone need 500,000 more workers in the coming year. While peacetime industry requires that 25% of its man power be skilled, defense industry needs 37.5% skilled. To speed the production of skill, Dr. Reeves and his assistants have created a new alphabetical agency: Training Within Industry (TWI...
These feats were the more remarkable because since 1929 training of new workers had all but disappeared from U.S. industrial plants. Last week, with new plants opening and TWI booming, Floyd Reeves looked forward to doubling, perhaps trebling the industrial defense army in the coming year...