Word: processing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Lewis Hershey likes to stress the fact that, during the whole process of drafting, prospective conscripts need have no contact whatsoever with the Army. Reason is that the Army made a thorough hash of the Civil War draft, proved in World War I that civilian operation was better. Key civilians in the next draft will be the members of 6,500-odd county boards, registrars at some 125,000 voting precincts, who will actually interview and select the draftees. The system is based on existing election machinery, in many instances will be manned by local election officials. For getting this...
...girl together who are looking for a pleasant evening on this last weekend will find it by playing around with Ed Wynn's "Boys and Girls Together." Or, more particularly, with Ed Wynn himself, who is the show, the whole show, and a perfect fool in the process. On the radio he may be pretty bad, but on the boards he has the charm of Mickey Rooney, and ordinary people can only wonder how a man can stand, practically alone, on a stage for three hours, talking and waving his arms feebly, and never letting his audience down...
Then a friend named Venice Lamb, attorney, put up some money, helped him build a better mill. In 1923 and 1924 Steckel borrowed more money, took out five patents. In 1926 Cold Metal Process Co. was set up with Steckel president, $100,000 capital...
Steelmen first regarded Steckel's invention as foolish. But Cold Metal Process revolutionized the industry, made possible the production of sheets and strips at 900 to 1.200 feet a minute compared to 140 feet before. C. M. P. prospered, first by rolling sheets for customers, later by building mills, then by licensing. But not everybody who cold-rolled dealt with C. M. P. In February 1934 American Sheet and Tinplate Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary) was sued for patent infringement, lost in the Supreme Court in October...
Aircraft. The unvarnished fact, up to last week, was that about one-third of Mr. Roosevelt's planes "in the process of production" had been ordered with money appropriated last year, that orders for another third had not been closed, that most of the rest were trainers which Army & Navy must have before they can use combat planes. Last week the Army ordered 850 more trainers (from Ryan Aeronautical Co., Beech Aircraft Corp., Vultee Aircraft, Inc.), placed its first big orders for combat aircraft out of 1940 appropriations. The orders: 277 heavy bombers from Boeing Aircraft Co., 410 pursuit...