Word: tooling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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 12,000 to 15,000 tool-&-die makers worked on equipment for aircraft production...
...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...
...time Japan moved into Indo-China, Thailand decided to demand this strip of land, to close the gap in the barrier. Because she went to work on Indo-China to do this, the outside world got the impression that Thailand was aiding Japan, was in fact already a mere tool of Japan. In the end, Bangkok might become a little Vichy but this time Thailand was trying to aid Thailand before it was too late...
...aircraft makers' best alibi was the machine-tool industry. It too began the year as a little industry, and though it more than doubled its 1939 sales to over $400,000,000, it remained so. When the planemakers began dumping real volume orders on the machine-tool market in February, Niles-Bement-Pond (one of the biggest of the lot) could call a mere $9,000,000 backlog the biggest in its history. Most toolmakers resisted defense-expansion pressure as much as they could, wanted instead to ration their customers. Automen, normally the biggest machine-tool customers, began...
...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...