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This week Major General William E. Kepner, 53, will finally get his diploma from Kokomo (Ind.) High School...
...same story, at the same hour, in other sections of Detroit, at Fleetwood Plant, at Chevrolet Gear & Axle. It was the same at the iron foundry in Saginaw, at Fisher Body Plant in Flint, at Delco-Remy in Muncie, Ind., at Delco Radio in Kokomo. It was the same at the warehouses in Los Angeles and Denver, at 80 G.M. plants in more than 50 cities in 19 states. A button had been pushed in Detroit and 175,000 U.S. men & women laid down their tools. Reconversion would have to wait...
...next system is a plan to eliminate the statistical delays which kept Purp's allotments always weeks behind time; a plan to relieve WPB of the burden of trying to calculate how many brass screws each manufacturer in Kokomo, Ind. will need in the month of November; a plan to give producers assurance that when they get a war order they will also get the materials to fulfill it; a plan to give war factories a call not merely on materials that the Government fondly hopes they can have but on materials that they actually...
...Globe American got a $1,500,000 contract for 1,248 of them. Globe American started boat production on Dec. 1. As prime contractor, it "co-contracted" 200 boats to Neptune Supply Co. of New Orleans, 304 to Imperial Lifeboat & Davit Co. of New York, kept 744 for Kokomo...
Onto each U.S. Liberty ship go four 31-passenger Globe American lifeboats, one motor-equipped, all equipped with oars, red sails, water, food, signaling and first-aid equipment. Every day at Kokomo four fully equipped boats are put on a flatcar, shipped to Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf shipyards, there hoisted to the davits of a new U.S. cargo vessel. Day after Franklin Roosevelt announced his Victory Program, Alden Chester wired the Maritime Commission, offered to furnish all lifeboats and life rafts needed for the entire merchant-marine building program-without subcontracting...