Word: twi
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...room of the Giddons plantation. The effect was an intense feeling of constriction which perfectly reflected the emotional repressions of its characters. Walter Wanger's movie loses much of this feeling; its scenarists have weakened the impression by grafting on all the conventional trappings of Southern plantation life. The twi-light spirituals of darkies--as well as the added love-interest--are pleasant enough, but superfluous...
...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...