Word: work
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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 12,000 to 15,000 tool-&-die makers worked on equipment for aircraft production...
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...
...know that orders have been issued-preparatory to Hitler making a peace offer -to the Communists of the country to disturb meetings," said Minister Bevin. "I know very well that you have been instructed to try to create the impression that the working class of this country is disunited. You have started it-but I don't think it will work...
...infantry is still "Queen of Battles." But the Queen was hardly recognizable last week; she was scuttling around like a maid-of-all-work. In the incessant tug-o'-war for prestige within the Army, the cavalry, the field artillery, even the infantry were on the defensive. What had their wind up was the rapid growth, the ambitious airs of the air corps and the armored force. The Germans in conquered Europe, the British in Africa had shown what this new combat team could do-and what could happen to nations which had no team, or a poor...
...Jacinto Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Riverside, Calif., a B-17 was heard to hiccough, splutter. Then there was an explosive crash. To death against a mountainside had ridden an Army B-17 crew, three officers, three enlisted men. Meantime the military flying services, speeding up training and tactical work, marked down their 59th fatal crash in 1940. Dead...