Word: carful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University car owners will be polled through the mail this week, Lally reported. Each will be asked, first whether he will use the Soldiers Field space suggested; then he will be asked whether he prefers a 12 cents per month rental which would leave the field unprotected, or if he would rather have snow service in winter, a guard, fence, and resurfacing of the area, all of which will up the rent to $12 per month...
Lally reported that Reynolds "took a stumbling block out of the path of the committee's plan by stating that he believed that the Boston City ordinances relating to fencing, guarding, and fire protection of parking lots would not apply." Thus car owners may be able to save money, Lally added...
Blame for Railroads? The car builders replied that the steel did not come in an even flow, that this had caused unbalance in the supply of parts, etc. But the railroad companies' own car-building shops, supposedly working under the same conditions, had slightly exceeded their quotas. Scheduled to build 15% of the new cars, they had actually built 27% of all cars in August...
...blame for the flop of the program, Senator Clyde Martin Reed, chairman of the Senate's transportation subcommittee, called car builders and railmen to Washington this week. But an investigation would hardly stretch the bottleneck fast enough. And a hard winter would squeeze down and close many a plant. The likeliest solution was Government allocation of steel. Though they dread the effect allocation would have on their markets, many steelmakers, who need cars as badly as anyone to haul coal and ore, privately thought that allocation was the only...
...dozen times in recent months, the steel shortage nipped motor car production this week. Five Detroit auto plants were closed down; some 37,000 workers were laid off. With General Motors limping along at only 65% of capacity, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. said that "it looks as if it would be two years at least" before there was enough steel. Ford Motor Co. did more than grumble; it earmarked $18 million to build a blast furnace and buy a secondhand rolling mill to turn out steel itself...