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Excerpt from Supplement to Commerce Reports, 1918: Daily Consular and Trade Reports Issued by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Department of Commerce
A prominent feature of the industry was the introduction of female labor for much of the work not demanding arduous effort. In many departments of engineering this innovation was made with' conspicuous success. In the manufacture of engine and machine parts, in every phase of the aircraft industry, in the production of tools and gauges, in machinery and drilling, women have shown adaptability and accuracy.
Productive capacity is still being extended in branches upon which the development of new war requirements has a direct bearing. Further important installations of plant are foreshadowed in the immedate Birmingham area and at Coventry. Local machinists were also engaged on considerable Government contracts in connec tion with production schemes in more distant places. Much progress was made in the output of small tools. Domestic resources have been greatly strengthened since the outbreak of the war, but they are still far from equal to the tremendous growth of demand and have had tobe supplemented by imports from'the United States. The trade in American small tools became more closely controlled. General imports of machine tools from the United States were on a large scale. T here was much enterprise in connection with plans for mak ing reorganized industrial establishments more self-sufficing as re gards repairs, the fashioning of special tools, and other details of internal economy.
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