Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commence until September 1942. ... To date Curtiss-Wright has not succeeded in producing a single SB 2 C which the Navy considers to be usable as a combat airplane. . . . The knowledge of the inactivity of the plant has become widely known among the friends & relatives of the [21,012] workmen, has had a bad effect upon morale in that area...
Pinochle Speed-Up. Two years ago, Detroit's Murray Corp. (auto frames and parts) was having production trouble with its branch plant in Ecorse, a Detroit suburb. The fault lay in obsolete time studies (schedules setting average time to complete operations), which actually gave some workmen so much free time that they played pinochle in washrooms. Murray got its U.A.W.-C.I.O. local to agree to new time studies by a firm of industrial engineers. To quiet union suspicions of a profit-inspired speedup, Murray did something unique in time study history: five union men were selected to take...
...naked steel flank was cluttered with huts, tool houses and catwalks; the workmen called them "Normandieville." Last week Normandieville was coming down, and a big new grandstand was going up on the elevated highway which skirts the piers. The Navy was getting ready for the raising of the Normandie, burned Feb. 9, 1942, which had never sailed under her Navy name-U.S.S. Lafayette...
...threats of total annihilation, Italians would like, for instance, to hear: 1) that Fascist printing presses in Tunis and Tripoli are now printing democratic Italian newspapers; 2) that the property of Fascists who fled from these cities has been confiscated, their mansions turned into rest homes for tired workmen...
Crucial equipment has now been diverted to Reynolds. In their rambling redbrick plant last week, workmen were frantically preparing the way for an enormous 5,000-ton hydraulic press, one of the five largest in the world, originally destined for Douglas Aircraft. By late this month the monster will be working around the clock for a score of planemakers...