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...last September Boeing Aircraft's Flying Fortress production was lagging badly for lack of 9,000 workers. That was the payoff: Army, Navy, WPB, WMC, industry, labor et al. publicly and simultaneously converged on the manpower bottleneck. They all worked on the "West Coast" for job priorities and allocation...
Though such an achievement may be far away, the fantastic new possibilities of electricity and electronics have already been widely apparent both in war and industry (TIME, Feb. 8 et seq.). Last week Westinghouse gave an especially striking illumination of the future of heating and lighting. In a Manhattan show for architects and designers, Westinghouse engineers displayed: > Brilliant fluorescent lamps, not attached to any wiring, carried freely around the room. The energy that lit these wireless lamps came from a high-frequency radio beam generated by a physician's ordinary diathermy set. (Westinghouse admitted that this was a stunt...
Since Britain's Lord Keynes and the U.S. Treasury's Harry D. White unveiled their international currency plans, many a U.S. banker has grumbled publicly & privately at the financial mumbo jumbo of "unitas" and "bancor" (TIME, April 5 et seq.). Almost to the last vice president they have pleaded for a simpler, more down-to-earth plan...
...three months Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. has been frantically hunting for 9,000 more workers to boost lagging Flying Fortress production (TIME, Aug. 2, et seq.). Scouts were dispatched into the Middle West to lure workers to Boeing; the War Manpower Commission asked Puget Sound shipyards to lay off some 14,000 men; patriotic Seattlites went from door to door begging housewives to take jobs; a giant rally was held in the University of Washington stadium. Result: last week Boeing was swamped, had to turn job-seekers away. Boeing still needs some 5,000 to 6,000 workers...
...over Tulane's Tropical Medicine Department in 1938, it consisted of himself and two assistants. In 1941 the Rockefeller Foundation, mindful of the epidemic threats of global war, gave it $200,000. With this money and contributions from the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, Inc., Eli Lilly Co. et al., a full-size school is now in the making...