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...long as we stand united . . . our workmen and our industries . . . will outproduce all the slave labor in the world, and this great nation need never appease the dictators. . . . Let us emulate the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and 'with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence . . . mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor...
...hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling a bit-her feel was still strange to the man at the controls-in a run of 2,000 feet. Lightened to 41 of her 82 tons (full load), she climbed easily while Douglas workmen left their work to watch, saw the job that had kept them busy for better than four years dwindle into...
Each workman is taught a slightly higher skill right on the job. Thus by easy stages unskilled workmen become semiskilled, semiskilled become skilled-and they produce while they learn. To help him run this system (called upgrading) Dr. Reeves drafted as assistants Socony Vacuum's Industrial Relations Manager Channing R. Dooley and Western Electric's Walter Dietz...
...feet and shook herself out of her cruise pace. On radio and telephone Giles Stedman and U.S. Lines got the Navy to agree to let him drop his 250 passengers at New York, promised to have his beauty back in Newport News by Wednesday of this week. There workmen will pull out her luxury trappings, install three-and four-decker bunks in her cabins, paint her Navy grey, perhaps arm her with 5-in. guns for her new life as a transport. Built to carry 1,200 passengers in the North Atlantic trade, she will be able to carry about...
...help meet the problem, the Agriculture Department has set up labor committees (now functioning in 30 States) to try to anticipate local shortages, have workmen available where & when needed. Last week draft headquarters asked local boards to go easy on conscripting farmhands. Many a WPA project has been closed to transfer men to farms...