Conquer by the Clock (1943)

[Music] the clock on the wall on the seventh day of December 1941 it struck the 11th hour every hour after that has been will be zero hours 48 United States of a free and Sovereign America are at War every American has his job to do and the will to do it and the tools to do it with pray God he also has the time time the most vital natural resource of a country at War every tick of the clock is time W or lost every 60-minute sweep every 12-hour tour of those Relentless hands is turning out carload lots of time for us to use ourselves or to give away to the [Music] enemy [Music] all the scientific devices of chronology are machines manufacturing time the tools that in our hands means Victory and hands must be as Relentless as the hands of our clocks they cannot afford to be [Music] left sunrise over rep public steel high noon at Willow Run sunfall on the electric boat company Midnight at the Brooklyn Navy Yard Dawn to dust and back to dawn again 3 8 hour shifts one day so much can be done in a day of Americans will keep their sleeves rolled up inside of 24 hours 12th of a freighter or a tanker can be built within those same 24 hours a squadron of Tanks can roll off the assembly line and a flight of bombers can be made ready from Radio to Rudder booat in one day a th000 acres of corn can become 30,000 bushels of food in one day one plant unit can turn out enough rifles to equip a battalion of infantry The Men Who in one day might win a war or losing how well let's visit Upstate at the factory where they make 30 caliber rifle cartridges for the Army let's visit Jean one of the girls who inspects these cartridges before their ship she's a good kid loves her country and a guy named Joe he gave her that pin she's wearing before he went to Australia she's a good kid honest intelligent but she gets tired in the afternoon sometimes likees to take extra time off for a smoke that's all only a few minutes a few minutes it only takes a second to jar the primer out of a cartridge and it only takes a second to put an okay ticket on a lot that should have been rejected a cartridge without a primer is one that will never fire it's about as useful in a rifle as a cigarette or as the minutes that go up in its smoke one bad cartridge One Chance in a million to get by undetected one second in 60 one girl out of a 100 who is an honest patriotic intelligent [Music] [Applause] [Music] sabur yes Jean is intelligent intelligent enough to know that one of these bullets in good condition can travel three miles but she doesn't know that a defective one can go Halfway Around the World somewhere in the Pacific somewhere between the devil and the Dutch East Indies is an American scouting [Music] [Applause] [Music] Patrol [Music] yeah [Music] too bad about that cartridge missing fire it should have been rejected it would have been too if a girl named Jean hadn't taken time out to smoke now meet JG general manager of a large Wholesale Food House makes 12,000 a year worn a white collar all his life that is except for the cocky one he wore in 1918 tried to get in this scrap after Pearl Harbor but they said his son could handle the fighting orders and he could go on taking food orders like this 50 cases of 14 A1 that's cone for Lifeboat Provisions notify Martin that means on Monday too old too old to fight but not too old to work yourself silly trying to get out orders and priorities on time time holy Mel it's 2:30 I'll have to rush like old Harry to make it better tell Mabel where I'll be oh no no no why bother it's Saturday that Lifeboat stuff doesn't go out till Monday nothing can come up over the weekend besides I've got an important engagement with a couple of guys important engagement with a couple of guys a couple of guys on the home team well they are leading the league and it's his first Saturday off and four months and there's nothing that can't wait nine innings nothing that is except Time Time and Tide and convoys a change in sailing orders and an urgent wire in coat Lifeboat supplies to be shipped at once shipped by a man who is busy coaching at first base unfortunately a convoy can't wait for the last a convoy waits for the tide and the tide waits for no man standing beside a Lifeboat only partly provisioned six American Flyers sail for Ireland in Convoy on a freighter that falls behind its escort it's an old [Music] story six men's sailed for Ireland two of them got there one of them out of his mind the other one dead 25 days in a boat provision for 10 days the tide rolls in JG and the clock ticks on and neither one in peace or war will wait for nine [Music] innings the state of North Australia is 23 time zones away from the state of Michigan but the clock on the cockpit of the plane over Darwin and the watch on the wrist of the officer in New Guinea are synchronized with a clock at the door of the factory in Detroit and geared to the clock over the water cooler in gamazo the production rate of our factories and the firing rate of our guns is synchronized by one machine the clock this is the machine that manufactures Victory turning out 32.5 million seconds each year each separate tick a precious tool to use in building our future and you these are your tools your hands and they must be as Relentless as the hands of your clocks if we are to conquer they cannot afford to be [Music] less can feel our world win Liberty for all let's keep the flame of freom Blazing whatever may be every burning [Music] moment conqu is the in every time we fight for time so we must ever on [Music] in the field and farmland and you in the factory will to makee bring [Music] victory [Music] oh