Word: tools
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...green-eyed Max Gilman is now faced with a different transformation. One of the many questions that probably bothered the directors this week: can Packard tool itself up to the job in 15 months? On that point a top-flight U. S. aircraft production man commented: "Marvelous things can happen in a period like the present. You might almost say the impossible becomes possible...
...Good for accountants, dentists, department-store workers, insurance agents, beauticians, chauffeurs, drug store workers, lumbermen, salesmen and saleswomen, office machine operators, machinists, road builders, tool & die makers, soldiers & sailors...
...works, the Nazis could produce perhaps 35 million tons of steel a year, almost a quarter of the world's capacity (perhaps 30% of the world's capacity including France), against Britain's 10%. When the war began Britain was still taking 30% of her machine-tool imports from Germany. British buying in the U. S. (producer of half the world's steel) could overcome this discrepancy if there were time. But halfhearted Allied approximations of totalitarian economic control, and futile attempts to preserve empire trading customs for a post-war world, used up time when...
Harold Sines Vance, broad-shouldered board chairman of Studebaker Corp.; in charge of machine-tool production...
...Russia invaded Finland last November, the U. S. was shocked to find that Russian purchases in the U. S. (copper, aluminum, machinery) were soaring. So the State Department slapped a moral embargo against the export of strategic goods to Russia. And in February, Secretary Morgenthau persuaded U. S. machine tool makers (who were doing a big business with Moscow) to give their fellow citizens priority. U. S. sales to the U. S. S. R. plummeted from $11,313,000 (January...