Word: turnoveritis
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San Diego's sickbay population, around 1,000 in peacetime, had swelled to more than 9,000, with a turnover of 5,000 a month. In Balboa Park, cots 'were jammed so close together that men felt their neighbors' pains.
No industrial noise is harder on the nerves than the brain-battering din of riveting. In one department of Bell Aircraft Corp.'s huge B-29 plant near Marietta, Ga., dominated by the monstrous chatter of some 450 riveters, conversation has been by lipreading. The uproar has undoubtedly played...
No Problems. All of this, from turkeys to bonuses, is simply the Grumman way of getting the greatest production in the shortest time. As a result, neither absentee ism nor lack of manpower, the plagues of other war plants, have been a Grumman problem. Turnover, for all causes, including the...
Today attack transports, landing craft and auxiliaries, especially tankers, are what the Navy needs most; carriers and cruisers next. These are the vessels used most in current Pacific offensives. The Navy has put antisubmarine craft back to third place, battleships to a poor fourth, and has cut back its submarine...
Turnover in Command. This officer's battalion commander was wounded in his command post about an hour after it was set up-a nasty mortar tear in his backside. The major took over command, but after a couple of hours he was slightly wounded in the back by a...