Word: kadlec
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...marshy morass. Mud-stained steelworkers slopped around in boots, sometimes worked up to their thighs in mud to get the arsenal's skeleton started. When the snows came they skinned along icy girders in biting wind, grinned back at the constructing quartermaster, bald, sunny Major H. R. Kadlec, when he asked them if the going was getting too tough. The few complaints they made were settled by their business agents and Kadlec (Detroiters called him Cadillac...
...northeast quarter of the arsenal was glassed in, the floor was laid and the first of the equipment was rolling into the building on railroad flatcars. The steelwork was about 90% complete and glaziers were on the heels of the steelmen in the rest of the building. Major Kadlec could proudly announce that the arsenal, complete with powerhouse, office, hospital building and test track, would be ready on schedule, April...