Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy plane flew into Detroit's City Airport from Washington one noon last week. Out hopped a Navy officer, a bulging brief case under his arm. He stepped into a car, sped to the Navy's $60,000,000 arsenal, operated by the Hudson Motor Car Co. There he pulled sheaves of mimeographed notices from his brief case, ordered them distributed to arsenal officials and workers. The notice: "The Navy Department has determined that it is to the best interests of the Government to change the operating management of the Naval Ordnance Plant...
...this curt manner, amazed Hudson officials learned that they had been ousted (one top man got the information from a janitor). After Oct. 28, when the present Navy-Hudson contract expires, Hudson will no longer operate the 14-building arsenal which it built for the Navy in 1941, has operated since. The new manager: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing...
Pass the Staff. The 10,000 arsenal workers, including highly skilled technicians skimmed from Hudson's other plants, will be handed over to Westinghouse. Their new boss: Brooklyn-born Frank D. Newbury. A Cornell graduate (1901), he joined Westinghouse 42 years ago, is now a vice president running the Emergency Products Division...
Subsequently, the Navy issued a bland statement that the change was made to eliminate red tape, to consolidate the arsenal with two others operated by Westinghouse at Canton, Ohio and Louisville. But Navy men let leak through the scuttle butt: Hudson had failed to produce up to expectations in the arsenal...
...Arsenal doubtfully doled out 2-4 pieces of precious optical glass, told the amateurs to go ahead and try. The amateurs failed to hit the mark at their first attempts. Porter, Ingalls & Person thereupon lined up So top-notch amateurs, named them "The Gang," sent them instructions, set up a system of postcard communication, soon began to deliver roof prisms by the thousand...