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Consider the plight of the Bedford Avenue beauty, the denizen of Section 16, who has lauded his beloved Bums ever since McPhail was a pup. Upturned Dodger noses and supercilious smiles will greet the once-inspired shouts of "trow de big bum out; de empire oughtta take gas." National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia...
...Methods. For this snappy comeback all nosegays go to production-ace Jack and his incredible business policies. J. & H.'s five plants - four in Bedford, Ohio and one in Cleveland - are a nifty combination of a college campus, a workman's paradise and zooming production. J. & H. has a band to rival Ohio State's, victory song and cheerleaders, boisterous parties to celebrate production records...
...only one answer - production. Roars he: "We're turning out more per man than anybody . . . and more stuff per square foot of plant than any other plant in the country." J. & H. started exactly two years ago with 90 employes, a handful of machines in a small Bedford factory and a newly designed aviation starter. The War Department liked it well enough to order 1,000 at $600 each. Next the Army asked J. & H. to mass-produce the famed Sperry automatic pilot. J. & H. countered with an offer to design and produce its own automatic pilot...
CARL CNOBLOCH Bedford...
...necessary only to look at the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange (lowest in seven years) to see that business as a whole is not profiteering. But there are always exceptions. Certainly no party to any non-profiteering covenant, written or tacit, was Jack & Heintz, Inc., of Bedford, Ohio, manufacturers of airplane starters...