For three months the giant Boeing plant in Seattle, hamstrung by a manpower shortage, has failed to meet constantly rising schedules for Flying Fortresses. Up & down the West Coast there is plenty of scary talk from other planemakers about production lags.
Last week all this talk caused the War Manpower Commission to do some tough, scary talking of its own. Gist of its talk: if necessary, the manpower problem may be solved by the wholesale removal of plants from the Pacific area. These were big-muscled words for often flabby WMC. And while few...
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