Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...echo William Knudsen, say that automobile factories and machines could not be adapted to manufacture aircraft. But Mr. Reuther pointed out that two automobile body makers (Murray, Briggs) had already contracted to make aircraft parts, that General Motors was producing parts for its Allison engine in a Cadillac shop in Detroit. By compulsion if necessary, by maximum coordination in any event, he would multiply such examples a hundredfold. Furthermore, he would restrict the industry's aircraft production to a few standardized types. These would be mostly trainers and single-engined fighters; to experienced aircraft makers would be left...
...Reuther? Walter Reuther is no Ford, no Knudsen. Neither is he an ignoramus about the automobile industry. A skilled tool-&-die maker for 13 years. he was once good enough to be foreman of a Ford tool-&-die shop. Meantime he studied economics in a university night school, later taught toolmaking in Russia. China, Japan, now knows the automobile industry union-side...
Typical German propagandist broadcasts designed to shake British morale contain minute details of what goes on inside individual British aircraft factories, tidbits of shop gossip which it would be easy for British Communist workers to pick up. Six-foot Rajani Palme Dutt, who succeeded Harry Pollitt as secretary of the Party (Pollitt is still a working member), is an Indian who has spent his life in Europe as a political agitator, stands well with Stalin and Molotov...
Holly grows widely in Britain, so plenty of that was hung up last week, but there was none of the usual mistletoe from France, and bussing went on without it. One daring London shop did a good business selling white satin nighties with green mistletoe appliqued. British moppets openly scorned peacetime toys as "sissy" and responsive British parents bought plenty of dolls togged in gas decontamination suits for little girls, plenty of toy war equipment for lads...
...Governor General invited the Japanese to a reception. The Japanese accepted, planning to attend in native costume or uniform. The Dutch sent word that those who attend receptions of the Governor General always go in formal European dress. Immediately, each tailor shop in town received orders for five or six small tail coats. At the reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol...