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Novelty is the theme of Christmas this year. With the machine-age in high gear today, novelties are not unusual, but the latest offering of the BAY STATE JEWELERS on the second floor of 8 Boylston Street bids fair to top them...
...outlook is getting worse. The time needed to put new facilities into operation is lengthening rather than shortening. The procurement time for parts, which should also be narrowing as the pipelines fill up, is actually widening. A year ago, it took Lockheed 38 weeks to get deliveries on landing gear; now it takes 56 weeks. On other components the time lag is often greater (see chart-). Cried one worried aircraft producer: "We have wasted a year...
...airplane production. At one factory making jet fighters, about 100 planes are ready for delivery as soon as faulty compressor pumps can be replaced. The Boeing B-47 stratojet bomber, plagued with bugs since the first day it flew, is now having trouble with fuel tanks and landing gear...
...wage stabilization, was not so easily settled. The Truman Administration sent in a team of speechmakers to urge the C.I.O. to take it easy on the wage front. Truman opened the discussion in his message to the convention. "We must get our own defense production program rolling in high gear," he said, "and we must find the way to do this without bringing on renewed inflation ... It means restrained and responsible actions by businessmen, farmers-and workers, too . . ." Later, after a $15-a-plate roast beef dinner, Price Stabilizer Mike DiSalle had his try. The delegates obviously weren...
Every special-purpose tool is an industrial problem in itself. Last week Cincinnati Milling engineers were poring over a book just received from an aircraft company, describing a new kind of bomber landing gear. "These are not blueprints," said one engineer. "They just explain what [the company] wants and leave it up to us to figure out a machine that will make it. Nothing like it has ever been made before." In the same way, other complicated problems are dumped in Geier's lap. Samples: ¶ The Air Force wants a tool that...