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Formula for Future. Reasoned WLB: the real wartime increase in living costs started at the beginning of 1941, reached 15% by the time the President announced his anti-inflation program in April. Therefore U.S. workmen should have had a 15% pay rise in that period to maintain their standard of living. But only that period should be considered; for what has happened since, only workers at substandard wages can ask relief...
...home, German women, whom Adolf Hitler called "the fighting soul of the fighting front," marched dutifully into the fields. With them went their children and their grandparents. From France came trainloads of workmen urged on by Pierre Laval who last week offered to trade tens of thousands of workmen for 5,000 interned French soldiers. To keep 2,500,000 alien laborers from grumbling, the Germans put out special language newspapers...
...building, which housed mild-eyed Holsteins and Jerseys during the annual Hagerstown fair, was fitted with jigs, converted into a production area for riveting bomber wings. The windows had to be boarded over during the racing season: as the sulkies sailed by on the oval track across the way, workmen dropped their tools to watch...
...Their first job was driving 60,000 pilings into the mud (a world's record for one job), but that was easy enough after their experience with Henry Kaiser on Boulder Dam and the San Francisco Bay bridge. The real problem was finding and training 40,000 workmen, less than 1% of whom had ever worked in a shipyard before...
...Tobe Deutschmann Co. was down to 40 workers ("all engineers and no workmen"), from 200 in 1928. His machinery was rusting, the floors sagging, windows broken, ceilings cobwebbed. Grass grew in the driveway that led to the Rising Sun Stove Polish factory he bought in plush '28. Tobe's engineers became expert in repairing broken-down equipment with bailing wire and tweezers. The only way they kept alive at all was on small specialty jobsקike keeping the tenants from moving out of an apartment house en masse because of radio static, whose source they finally traced...