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department where we make turbines. We make turbines to order. No two turbines are alike because they're made for a special purpose.” No industry that makes things for a special purpose, even though the principle is the same, can store them because nobody wants that particular object. But they did do it in the incandescent lights. They later found other things they could do it in. They really did quite a remarkable job in General Electric in discovering parts of their work where they could put it on an annual basis and guarantee a definite work week.

This could be done in a great many industries, but it had not been done. You couldn't require this by law, but by education you can do more than you can do by law in some fields. It was my idea, and it was the Governor's and Bruere's, that we take this committee as an educational operation and that we attempt to persuade more and more industries to do this kind of thing or to devise other methods of preventing unemployment in the whole or part of their particular industry or plant. We found a great many things that can be done to prevent unemployment just by manufacturing devices, manufacturing controls, credit controls, credit supervision and all that sort of thing. You just don't get overexpanded. You make just what you're going to sell and you give a