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...General Motors' modern, air-conditioned brick plant in Livonia, Mich, one day last week, the second shift had just filed in to start a normal day's work turning out Hydra-Matic transmissions for G.M., Lincoln, Kaiser, Hudson and Nash. Moments later, sparks from a welder's torch ignited an oil-soaked conveyor belt; suddenly flames leapfrogged from one drip pan to another. After that said Foreman Floyd Davis, everything "went up like a torch...
...brisk west wind. Steel columns twisted and dipped like trees bowed by an ice storm. It was the worst fire in the history of Detroit, the worst in the U.S. for any single plant.' G.M.'s estimated loss: $70 million in plant, tools and other equipment. Livonia was insured for only $28 million...
...Lincolns. Hudson (58%), shut down for a model change, has "a couple of weeks' supply"; Nash (33%) has enough for a few weeks, but has been shut down by a supplier's strike; Kaiser (60%) has been closed since June. Said G.M. President Harlow Curtice after inspecting Livonia: "At this moment every facility ... is being concentrated on the extensive rebuilding job that faces us . . ." Curtice moved fast, this week took steps to lease 1,500,000 sq. ft. of idle Kaiser Motors Corp. space at Willow Run to set up an emergency transmission plant...
...plants will span the continent: a $100 million assembly plant near San Francisco, a $75 million plant near Louisville, and a $90.0 million one at Mahwah, NJ. Other millions will be spent to almost double the facilities of present plants in Cleveland and Cincinnati, retool a tank plant at Livonia, Mich, for auto-transmission production...
...fastest-growing little town in the country" became the cliche of the year. The population of Pomona, Calif, jumped from 38,000 to 42,300 in a year as aircraft plants (Lockheed and Northrop) rose among its walnut groves. Livonia, Mich, increased in size (from 17,000 to 25,000) as the result of Ford's $50 million tank plant, a new General Motors plant, and other industries which came in their wake...