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...hydraulic hoists, dump-truck bodies, water systems, road scrapers, snow plows "and everything." Ruddy, energetic, thick-accented Julius Heil is a millionaire, a life-member Elk, also a Moose, Shriner and patriarch of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, where he meets his wife and friends every Saturday evening for a Familienfest. He can boast that in all his business years his workers have never struck, and that during Depression he spent $600,000 of his company's reserves to keep them on the payroll cleaning machinery, repairing plants, keeping up the grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Heil Heil | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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