Word: bendixes
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...first time since last June, U.S. businessmen this week were running all their own plants. Fortnight ago the U.S. Army moved out of Air Associates' plant in Bendix, N.J., left it in the hands of the new management it had forced directors to elect. Last week the Navy turned the Federal Shipbuilding yards at Kearny back to its officers, who had stood by throughout the Navy's visit, giving what the Navy called "damned good advice...
...Army's behest, the directors of Air Associates, Inc. fired President F. Leroy Hill, Vice President Harold I. Crow. This was a condition set up by the Army for return of the company's plant at Bendix, N.J., taken over by the Army last October after a bitter, months-long strike...
...gates of Air Associates, Inc., of Bendix, N.J., rolled trucks filled with U.S. troops. Armed with machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, fixed bayonets, 2,100 soldiers clambered down and took possession of the factory. For the third time in five months the Government seized a defense plant to settle a labor trouble...
Picket lines sprang up once more, and C.I.O. leaders threatened to call a sympathetic strike among aircraft plants in the five eastern States. Out of patience, Washington sent Colonel Roy M. Jones, two other Army officers to Bendix to see that the Board's recommendations were carried...
That was the point at which Mr. Roosevelt made public the proclamation that "the company had failed to carry out the Board's recommendations," and armed troops moved into Bendix...