Tooling up American factories with new machines is only half of the problem that production for war entailed. The other half is equally important - “tooling up” with new workers at strange jobs. Salesmen and automobile dealers, lawyers and teachers, jewelers, tradesmen and students are being converted by the thousands into skilled mechanics and craftsmen in the tank and gun and plane factories. Industry is doing what it can to fit the unskilled workman into a job for which he is best adapted. For example, N. A, Woodworth, manufacturer of a hundred different precision parts for aircraft engines, spots new employes at his Ferndale, Mich., glants in jobs of a nature corresponding to previous Work: a jeweler is now an inspector of precision parts, a school teacher from Kentucky was made supervisor of 50 girls whom she teaches to use gauges and testing equipment. A Detroit restaurant cook moved from one oven to a bigger one. He knew heat control, he was accustomed to working in warm atmosphere, so he was assigned to tool hardening in the heat-treating ovens. A former building supervisor for a real estate contractor was familiar with blueprints, and found familiar work as a supervisor in a production division where he must interpret blueprints and specifications. The sales manager of a used car agency became an expert on engine parts through long experience appraising automobiles and supervising repair work. Now he’s using that knowledge making various tests on airplane parts as they come from the production line.