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Describing his bureau's job, William C. Herrington, head of the branch here, said, "Our three-fold purpose is to find out the conditions of marine fisheries, to find the cause of any poor conditions we may uncover, and to develop proper remedial management means to increase and maintain good fishing yields...
Fast-moving, hard-driving A. W. S. Herrington bought the truck division of near-bankrupt Marmon Motor Car in 1931, settled down in Indianapolis. A Motor Transport Corps captain in World War I, Herrington knows trucks and tanks inside & out. He once worked for Motorcycle Makers Harley-Davidson, spent seven years as transportation engineer with the Army and Marine Corps...
Because of his World War I stint, Herrington knew that the tremendous traction of his all-wheel trucks would be useful in anyone's army. So he prepared for the boom; 30 days after the Germans broke into Poland, Herrington broke ground for a fivefold expansion of plant facilities. Then he expanded again & again. His output is now 20-25 times that of August 1939, still going...
...almost all of this increase is in tanks, not trucks. Equipped to make almost anything big that moves, Herrington soon had orders from Britain, The Netherlands Indies, Greece and China. M-H equipment has been war-tested aplenty. The British were so pleased with their first M-H trucks (they went over desert sand like camels) that they bought about 100,000 units, are now using many of them in the Libyan push. In Crete, scores of British-and Greek-owned M-H light tanks fought mightily before being blasted to bits by Nazi bombers. Dutch-owned M-H tanks...
...this week the main concern of Herrington is not where his products fight but how fast he can get them out. To speed production he has already subcontracted 60-70% of his $35,000,000 backlog, hopes to boost the ratio still higher. His deliveries in 1941's first eight months were $4,703,000, only 2% less than 1940's record-breaking total. But December sales alone were roughly $3,500,000, including $2,750,000 worth of tanks for the Dutch. For next year, if the expected orders come in, Herrington is shooting at deliveries...