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Priorities on clay, the usual ocarina material, are no difficulty. "Sweet potatoes" shaped out of plastic have the added advantage of being practically unbreakable. Since Pearl Harbor, sales of plastic ocarinas have skyrocketed. Biggest manufacturer, the Fred. Gretsch Mfg. Co. of Chicago and Brooklyn, now sells some 250,000 to 300,000 a year...
...canteens. Biggest factor nationally is the F. B. Prophet Co., which grosses $50,000 per day, services 61 companies and some 250,000 workers in the U.S. Probably No. 1 local caterer is Trainor Bros. Inc., which serves 150,000 workers a day at 13 Detroit factories (including Briggs Mfg., Continental Motors, Fruehauf Trailer) via 20 trucks and trailers and 120 rolling canteens. Average price for a full meal: 35?. Though it takes four caterers to cover the whole of River Rouge, a good part of Henry Ford's giant plant is served by the Springwells Box Lunch...
Probably the most democratic and hardest-working school in the U.S. is the one conducted in Detroit's old Le Baron Body plant by the Briggs Mfg. Co., which switched last year from automobile bodies to planes. In that efficient technical school Briggs executives, plant managers and foremen study side by side with green boy & girl apprentices, old auto workers, Negroes. Briggs executives have a stiffer course, must get 70% on their report cards or be flunked...
Women are no problem in such places as the AC Spark Plug in Flint, which has employed women for years, easily converted men & women alike to machine-gun making. Briggs Mfg. Co. in Detroit simply took women from the upholstering department, taught them to put fabric on bomber wings and rivet framework...
...Irish-American James Gerity Jr., 37, learned the plating business from his father in Toledo, branched out for himself in 1937 when he formed the Gerity-Adrian Mfg. Corp. (Adrian, Mich.). From 17 employes to begin with, he reached a peak of 960 early this year, plating door handles and radiator trimmings for automobiles, household hardware, etc. His basic manufacturing process reads like a roster of scarce materials: he uses nickel anodes for chrome-plating zinc die castings, which can't be made without aluminum. His best customer: General Motors, whose A. C. Spark Plug Co. can make...