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...unions in U. S. aircraft plants, have a prime selling point: aircraft workers get lower hourly wages (although they may earn more in the course of a year) than men at comparable jobs in automobile factories. During September, factory hands in the zooming aircraft industry averaged 73.8? an hour, automen 94.9?. Last week in one factory U. A. W. forced a showdown...
...patient. As aircraft manufacturers hacked away by hand at their $2,500,000,000-plus backlog, he quickly allayed the fear that their industry would be moved to Detroit, but at the same time he made eyes at his mass-producing auto friends (TIME, Oct. 7). Neither planemakers nor automen enjoyed this coquetry...
Last week big Bill Knudsen spoke. To 69 automotive bigwigs gathered in Detroit he outlined the part they were to play. Franklin Roosevelt had just decided to add 12,000 new bombers to the air expansion program-for parts of which automen would receive $500,000,000 in orders by next spring. With him Commissioner Knudsen had brought blueprints to help them retool their plants, prepare to mass-produce wing, fuselage and tail assemblages. If they could handle the job, said Mr. Knudsen, automakers would get one quarter of the entire rearmament fund alloted to aircraft...
This week, in Manhattan's barnlike Grand Central Palace, U. S. motormakers stage their 41 st National Automobile Show. An American institution, the Show is the springboard of the new selling season. In good years and bad, automen bubble with hope at show time. This year optimism spouts like a geyser. Thanks to defense spending, they expect 1941 sales to be the highest since 1937's 5,016,437 cars, No. 2 automobile year...
Already worried by glowing reports on his "600," automen were shocked last week when Mason slashed his medium-priced Nash sixes and eights as much as $159 (new prices $923 to $1,151). Arch-independent Mason also bucked the trend by yanking all the fancy work off the higher-priced Nash-giving it a sleek, custom-made appearance. The new "600" and price cuts, prophesies Mason, will boost Nash output to a record 125,000 cars this year, more than double 1940 model sales...