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The first was the statistical meaning of an announcement of OPM's William Knudsen, late a motormaker himself, that each company in the nation's No. 1 consumer industry had agreed to cut 1942 production by one-fifth. The second came from an announcement by Alfred P. Sloan...
When World War II began, management of the German coal industry was given to big, blond, blue-eyed Paul Walter, onetime lieutenant of Labor Front Leader Dr. Robert Ley. With the title of the Reich's Coal Kommissar, Herr Walter descended on the producers and retailers, organized them into...
Today U. S. industry has almost reached a war footing. The factors that normally affect the course of business-consumer spending, inventories, expansion and contraction of credit, etc.-have been dwarfed by the great new factor of military necessity. Production has in effect been pegged by the Government for non...
FORTUNE'S gorgeously illustrated document ranges over the strategy of sky war, turns the aircraft industry inside out, dabbles in aeronautical research, peeks prophetically into a future wherein "the whole world is the shoreline of the universal ocean of air." But its most telling pages seek to smash an...
Strikes, said Dr. Reynolds, would probably increase in the near future. Reasons: 1) probability of rising consumer goods prices; 2) bigger industrial profits, in which labor would demand a share; 3) union organizational drives*; 4) rivalry between A. F. of L. and C. I. O.; 5) pressure for increased production...