[World War II Productivity film, 1940s]

[Music] listen do you hear it that that  is time taking away disappearing into eternity adding minutes hours  days to all our yester years time lost is never found again it goes like  the wind like the tides waiting for no men like electricity time is of the moment only  it cannot be stored its energy is instantaneous it must be used now or not at all this very  second will never come again Again by losing present time we lose all time there is no other  time than now by time all things are produced and judged production is man hours man minutes man  seconds they add up those seconds those minutes those ours they add up to man days man years and  men's lives men's lives theirs a responsibility men's lives hinging on production hinging on  the right gun the right right tank the right plane the right ship the right material being  at the right place at the right time there's a responsibility who responsibility The Foundry  man the riveters the order clerks the shipping clerks the foremans the draftsman the machinists  bookkeepers welders typists inspectors managers assemblers whose responsibility is it to get  things done on time ask that of Bob lockart why don't you Bob blockart Marine private first  class to whom time means nothing Forever More in fasan island of Madura in the South Java sea whose  responsibility ask that of Andy Fletcher why don't you Andy Fletcher Chief Bon's mate for whom time  ended at 119° 11 minutes 33 seconds east 14° 21 minutes 40 seconds north ask the children  of Mrs Clark why don't you faty and Tommy three and six who'll never know 30 or 60 since  bombers came out of the Dawn who responsibility whose responsibility is it anyhow surely someone  has the answer you over there how about it whose responsibility is it mister to see that we win  this fight we got generals ain't we an admiral and an Army and Navy and Air Force Marines ain't  we yes sure we've got the men all right fighting men all of them of America of Canada Australia  Britain China the Netherlands of all the United Nations millions of fisted men eager for battle  but bare fists won't win this war empty hands empty stomachs empty Skies empty oceans won't  win this war this is a war of machine guns of rifles of bullets grenades this is a war of jeeps  and Scout cars and half tracks of anti tank guns and trapnel of mortars and hoers this is a war  of food stuffs food for our fighting men food for our allies food for the home front food to  feed lovers of Liberty this is a war of things like parachutes and life rafts helmets and shoes  pup tents and shovels and a thousand other items of supplies this is a war of dive bombers of long  range bombers of interceptors of fighter planes and transport planes this is a war of battleships  of Cruisers destroyers carriers mosquito boats and Landing boats of tankers and cargo ships and  Troop ships this is a war of machines this is a war of production all out production for all  out war production now this minute this second to do the job that must be done it's a job of  speed and more speed and more speed a job of using time now to fight time lost time lost What  Becomes of it what does it add up to it adds up to this it adds up to unmade ships and unmade  planes unmade tanks and unade gun a million plus Necessities with which to fight and  win this war unmade it adds up to batan and corgador Hong Kong and Singapore Burma and Java  and Greece and Holland and Belgium and Poland and France it adds up to the children of Mrs Park the  children and women of China Mala the Philippines England Denmark and Norway the low countries  lvia Czechoslovakia it adds up to and Def Chief bosen's mate and the men and destroyers down  in the China Sea the men and the Cruisers down in the Java sea the men on the Freighters down in the  North Sea it adds up to Bob blar Marine private first class and the men of dunker and smens  hangchow and palang Luzan and Borneo wait a minute can you hear me yes who are you Bob lock the fell  you've been talking about there's something I want to tell you I've been thinking I've got plenty  of time for that you know plenty and I've been thinking of how it's the little things that add  up the little things that don't seem so important one by one but add it all together mean defeat or  Victory like the nail remember for what of a nail the shoe was lost for what of a shoe the horse  was lost for one of a horse the rider was lost for one of a rider the battle was lost lost yep  that's how they add up those little lost things those little lost things like seconds and minutes  I saw a chart once when I was a mhand and here's how it went when 6 million workers lose one minute  a day each there's 100,000 productive hours lost in that single day when 100,000 productive hours  are lost in a single day there have been 34 work years lost between sunrise and sunset between  sunrise and sunset you can wait a war or lose a war between sunrise and sunset a captain once  told me that just one extra plane might swing the balance of power to Victory think of all the  extra planes that could be made from all the minutes that are lost between sunrise and sunset  plenty I'll bet you plenty now don't get me wrong I'm not complaining maybe my number was up come  what made but I'd have sure liked it better if I could have knocked down that flying monkey from  the sky before he got me and I might have too if only if only what B well it's kind of hard to know  where to start exactly you see turning out this stuff for war is more than only one plants doing  or one Shop's doing or one man's doing it takes a lot of plants and a lot of shops and a lot of  men and women all geared in together all of them moving like clockwork and no matter where a man  or a woman works on the production line and the accounting department the clerical Department the  estimating Department the drafting department or anywhere else each of their jobs has to dovetail  perfectly the schedules are to be maintained I suppose that where my number first started to be  up was when Molly MCG a typist in the clerical Department of a prime contractor got a call from  her boyfriend well I don't see why you can't use Eddie McCracken's car he's got a C card hasn't he  and besides how would I look all dressed up and going to a party on a bus all right but if we've  got to take a bus we'll have to leave earlier and that'll hard give me any a time at all to Dr  de now while Molly was spreading her boss had received a rush order from ordinance in Washington  about changes to be made at once on a new AA gun that was destined for us so the boss called in  Molly and dictated instructions to be airmail that night to a subcontractor giving specifications for  immediate changes to be made in production typing those specifications took time and remember Molly  had a big date for that night so she rushed to get done and made lot the mistake well correcting  mistakes that you make when you're careless just doubles the time that you'd spend being cautious  so she added an hour to time lost already and that caused more trouble the order went air ma but it  missed the last pickup till later that evening and that was too late for delivery next morning  see how it's growing that snowball have lost time and the bigger it gets the more danger it has but  let's follow the ORD after it got to the factory it arrived in the third May at 2 the afternoon  and though it was marked Rush the girl in the mail room thought otherwise it just one in the pile  with the rest of the stuff marked for Murdoch the order clerk now Murdoch's okay but he's Gabby so  along about 4:30 when he wasn't far off from that order marked Rush he thought of a story and had  to go tell it to Sweeny and that reminded Sweeney of a story and then Murdoch told another and  before you knew it 15 minutes it slipped away by the time Murdoch got back to work again it was 15  minutes closer to quitting time and he was still 20 minutes of work away from that order marked  Rush guess what happened of course it stayed on his desk until morning instead of reaching the  shop superintendent in time for the night shift to start on so that was a second day loss no a third  because the night shift equals a day of work and nobody seemed ever to think of the difference that  even a minute can mean when you're fighting a war