Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...mass-production brains on the job of making aircraft parts, on the grounds that its actual machinery and assembly lines are no good for making airplanes. Broader too was his assertion, backed up by extensive arithmetic, that the industry already has enough idle men, machines and floor space to turn out 500 fighters a day within six months...
...quivered to attention. Mr. Ford now hopes to have a new aircraft engine factory ready by next fall, produce 4,500 engines by mid-1942. If Mr. Reuther had his way, Ford Motor Co. would probably not be building a new plant. Instead Ford would be turning unused space, men, machines in his own and other manufacturers' plants to aircraft production. So would all the other automakers, to manufacture aircraft and engine parts for which their facilities were best fitted. Everybody would be in one big and perhaps unhappy family, working under a nine-man board (three for Government...
...Idle? Walter Reuther's statement that the booming automobile industry had any idle capacity or labor was news to most people. Planner Reuther cited three empty factories in Detroit with 554,000 square feet of idle space. He named companies (Fisher Body, Chevrolet, Ternstedt) which had recently laid off skilled workers or put them at unskilled labor, declared that not more than half the industry's total capacity was actually at work. He also assumed that individual auto-makers would have to be compelled to pool their resources and talents, perhaps delay their own new models while...
...year's end the industry had expanded its floor space 30%. But its backlog was growing faster, was equal to about a year of capacity operation. On Dec. 4 a large new list of machine tools was subjected to export priority control. Bill Knudsen scolded the industry for not doing more subcontracting. Meanwhile, investors showed less interest in machine-tool stocks than they might have if their low capitalization had not marked them for plucking by the excess-profits...
...University students must walk to school if they live within two kilometres, can go to the theatre only on weekends or holidays, can't go at all to mah-jongg parlors, billiard saloons, cafes, bars. Tokyo cafes can have only one waitress per six square metres of floor space, instead of one per four square metres as formerly. Gasoline is forbidden to the few thousands who own private cars...