Word: threes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Navy, then with the NDAC. It was getting dark when Secretary Steve Early went out into the anteroom, told the few newsmen that whatever was to be said would have to come later from the Boss himself. Then came an unexpected summons to one of the rare (three or four) nonscheduled press conferences the President has held in the past four years. Grabbing pencils & paper, they made for the office, were soon scribbling notes on the best White House story in weeks...
...knows enough for the job. Better, said he, to have on the board management (Knudsen), labor (Hillman) and the user-buyers of national defense products (Navy's Knox, Army's Stimson). Under their four-man chairmanship (if it works that way) will be planned the three big Ps of industrial defense: 1) Production, 2) Purchasing, 3) Priorities. The National Defense Advisory Commission will go on planning, advising...
...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, three for Labor, three for Management...
...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...
This apparent contradiction was based on the fact that U. S. private shipbuilders and Navy Yards, working three shifts a day, six-seven days a week, were getting along faster than all but the most hopeful had expected. Fourteen destroyers were commissioned or launched between July 1 and Dec. 1. and 17 keels were laid. Construction time of a 1,650-ton destroyer has been cut from 28 to 18 months; by 1943 shipbuilders hope to whittle it to six. Work on battleships, carriers and cruisers is generally ahead of schedule...