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Last week DPAdministrator Manly Fleischmann found that the armed services had allocated 20 million more pounds of aluminum than they could use under the "stretch-out" arms program. He granted an extra 1,000,000 Ibs. for the auto industry. As a result, the industry, which had been authorized to turn out 930,000 cars in the second quarter but allowed only enough copper and aluminum for 800,000, hoped it might be able to boost its production closer to the authorized quota...
Under the new stretch-out plan, aircraft builders agreed that the number of "multiple sources" ready for volume production is bound to diminish. Aircraft companies who have been farming out a big chunk of their work will probably shift more work back into their own plants. The result will probably be that some aircraft plants, scheduled to come into production, will be crossed...
...stretch-out policy will have a profound effect on the entire economy. Many a manufacturer who has planned to hit peak output in 1953, and then cut back sharply, will have his schedules revised. The original peak will not be reached, but production will continue longer at the lower level, and there will be fewer cutbacks. In short, it looked now as if the armament-based boom would last much longer than most businessmen had thought...
...Stretch-Out. Dr. Skinner also exploited pigeons. By subtle and gradual application of the "stretch-out," he forced one pigeon to peck 35,000 times in a five-hour period for only one-third of an ounce of food. "This," explains Professor Skinner, "is similar to offering an incentive to a wage earner. A high output can be obtained with very little pay if the schedule of payoff is right...
...spring of 1929 he was sent to the restless South. The "lint-heads" in the Tennessee and Carolina mills, ridden with pellagra, beaten down by the stretch-out, were showing signs of kicking over the belts and bobbins. Beal went to North Carolina, where he organized and directed the Gastonia strike (at the Manville-Jenckes Co.'s Loray Mill). One night there was violence, and Gastonia's Police Chief 0. F. Aderholt was killed...