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...automobile manufacturers alike were sure to echo William Knudsen, say that automobile factories and machines could not be adapted to manufacture aircraft. But Mr. Reuther pointed out that two automobile body makers (Murray, Briggs) had already contracted to make aircraft parts, that General Motors was producing parts for its Allison engine in a Cadillac shop in Detroit. By compulsion if necessary, by maximum coordination in any event, he would multiply such examples a hundredfold. Furthermore, he would restrict the industry's aircraft production to a few standardized types. These would be mostly trainers and single-engined fighters; to experienced...
...industry expanded, but not enough. Soon outsiders were creeping in-with no better results. G. M. went painfully into chicken-feed production with its liquid-cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...
...nothing) as head of its production section. Big Bill Knudsen had kept his mouth shut while the press reported instances of slow delivery on airplanes, tanks & guns, of scrambled priorities for defense orders, of unexpected delays in such vital things as production of the Army Air Corps's Allison aircraft engine. But last week he sounded off. The occasion was the National Association of Manufacturers' annual convention; the place was the ballroom of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria. In Big Bill's audience sat the heads of U. S. industry...
Readers who do not yet agree with Dickens' Mr. Bumble that "the law is a ass, a idiot" can turn to The Strangest Cases on Record by Lawyer John Allison Duncan of Cleveland. His book is a random docket of legal madness. Hear...
...STRANGEST CASES ON RECORD-John Allison Duncan-Reilly...