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Make-up Editor Bob Boyd had just put the regular edition to bed. The teletypesetter circuits were still open, so Boyd was able to flash the word at once to all our printers to shift over to their D-day plan. All work stopped on the old Battlefronts form; instead the electrotypers began rushing extra plates of the other news sections. When our presses started running at the usual hour Tuesday morning, the extra plates enabled us to turn out these other sections at twice the usual rate-so that all the presses would be clear that night...
Brewster employes dramatically forced an answer. At the urging of their union (C.I.O. United Auto Workers), all but 200 of the day shift stayed at work, even after the night shift came on. Since there was too little work for two crews, some workers played ping-pong and shuffleboard, danced to the music of piano, brass and drum. The union sent in enough sandwiches, pies, doughnuts, coffee and soda pop for a five-day siege. Some of the stay-ins crowded out on the balconies, hanging signs: "We've Got the Tools. We've got the Ability...
Brother's Advice. Pokryshkin's mother still lives in Novosibirsk, with the youngest of her four sons. She is a plain old peasant woman, proud of her sons. Recently she wrote to Alexander: "Your brother [also an airman] wants to shift to your unit." Replied Alexander: "Let him prove his mettle...
Beaverbrook In? Other pressures are at work. Fundamentally, Britons want a change-and dare not make a complete change at the top while the war is still on. A shift in the Foreign Office, perhaps others elsewhere, will give Britons a feeling that their Government has responded to their deep desire...
...into completed planes. Each complex is not only self-sustaining, but personnel and equipment of its units are interchangeable. . . . As soon as a plant in one complex is bombed out, its workers may be transported to a similar plant in another complex to be put on as an additional shift there and thus take up the slack caused by loss of the plant from which they have just been driven...