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...stayed in a smoke-fogged suite in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel, bargaining, eating, occasionally sleeping. Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...were being delivered monthly, a rate also said to approach German production. Britain is now patrolled, Mr. Thomis reported, by 700 single-seater fighting planes, but the British are still sadly lacking in fast, long-range bombers. Even more optimistic was a special dispatch printed in the American Machinist, which places Britain's present monthly output of warplanes at 700 a month, with an anticipated schedule of 1,000 planes monthly before January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bravo Iron! | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...said, which is all moss and peat and "fit for nothing but deer." Not even trout could be raised on it. Spunkily Lady Astor offered to build Mr. Kirkwood a cottage on her deer park on Jura and bet him he could not make a living off it. Machinist Kirkwood is no farmer, but he accepted-much too hastily, it turned out. The discussion was continued in the lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welshing Scot | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...five miles off the tiny Isles of Shoals, the Squalus, driving ahead on her Diesel engines, prepared to dive. Machinist's Mate Alfred G. Prien was at the controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Dead Dogfish | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight Reo Machinist Guy Hack convinced U. S. District Judge Arthur F. Lederle in Detroit that the 1,500 Reo employes at Lansing should have a hand in saving the company and their jobs, wangled a place on the reorganized board for a director to be elected by the workers. Last week Reo's workers elected Guy Hack, who is also president of their C. I. O. local. To objections that he could not be Union President Hack and Company Director Hack at the same time, Guy Hack answered that he cannot hire and fire, therefore still retains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: All Together | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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