Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buffalo, where "scamping" (pirating of workers) has become a fine art, foremen make the rounds of war workers' homes, to lure them to new jobs. One plant sent telegrams to another's workmen, offering them all good jobs-sight unseen-at 7:30 next morning. Personnel managers were saying: "the way to get one good man is to hire four because three will quit...
...Detroit, the auto industry's new war plants have no shortage yet, expect to lose soon about half the men now deferred by draft boards-just at a time when Michigan factories, newly tooled up, will need 290,000 new workmen by June. The U.S. Employment Service, searching through draft files for skilled workers in civilian-industry jobs, has talked only an "infinitesimal" number into changing to war plants...
...more secure than at any time since the Manchu empire. The Chiangs could be pleased. They awaited Wendell Willkie's visit, remembering as they did on their own trip to the great Northwest that "he who has reason on his side need not speak in a loud voice." Workmen completed carving a 3,200-ft. runway from the solid rock of Chungking's mountains to accommodate Willkie's four-motored bomber. The Chiangs visited the garden house set aside for their guest. The Missimo saw that it was properly decorated with new silk draperies, American daisies, ancient...
...Workmen on the 8:30 a.m.-to-4:30 p.m. shift cheered, picked up their lunch pails, went home. Workmen on the next shift were already swarming around a second, identical craft perched on the ways. Paddy O'Laughlin, swearing lustily, pressed another buzzer. Down to the river slid the second ship. Chortled tough, wiry Mr. O'Laughlin, who started his career as a rivet "cooker," rose to become general superintendent of the Dravo yards: "I'm so happy I feel like going home and beating up my wife...
...over the U.S. last week, superintendents, foremen, brass hats, workmen in the shipbuilding industry shared Mr. O'Laughlin's elation. Last week Donald Nelson announced that U.S. war production had increased 350% since Pearl Harbor, but his figure does not apply to the shipbuilding industry. Since Pearl Harbor, shipbuilders have increased production roughly...