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...only 7% of the U.S.'s productive capacity was busy with defense work. This year it is estimated at 25%. Next year it will be 49%. In 1943, it will be 54%. What this tremendous shift will do to the U.S., in swift shortening of butter supplies in favor of guns, in great blotches of unemployment, no man had the imagination fully to realize...
...shipyards are scheduled to launch 20 ships in December, 75 in the first quarter of 1942, 324 in the rest of the year. For want of labor some shipyards are still on a five-day, one-or-two shift basis. If the labor can be found, they probably will not long remain so. But when the ships are built crews will still be needed to man them-and the U.S. is short of sailors...
Primitive free enterprise, said he, was irresponsible and daring. The modern variety is (or is becoming) responsible, "marked by a shift from management in the aristocratic tradition of personal proprietorship to the democratic philosophy of non-partisan administration." But the danger is that it should lose its daring. In the fear that Government will out-promise and submerge a timorous enterprise system, "thus far business has relied too fully on the negative principle, 'I want to be left alone...
...Ohio Pen ex-convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs.* His other employes include students from Ohio State's engineering school, a neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling machines, three grinders, a press, a power hacksaw. His original subcontract has been doubled...
...make much bigger concessions in the name of patriotism-as he and his cousin Joe Patterson (now publisher of the even more successful New York Daily News) did in World War I. If the Colonel again begins whipping up fighting spirit as hotly as he now does isolation, his shift will doubtless cut some interventionist ground from under Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. But the real question of how much strength the Colonel can muster for the battle is how much of the Tribune's original cast-iron constitution is still sound after years of arbitrary...