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Schwartz took a garbage pail, a frying pan, a length of stovepipe, an electric motor and two pulleys, put them all together, produced a rotary snowplow that could also mow a lawn...
...four years ago, shop-apprentice George T. Christopher's biggest worry in business life was how to get along with his foreman at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. This week George Christopher again worried about his relations with foremen-but this time it was 1,200 of them. Packard Motor Car Co.'s President George Christopher had been informed that 666 of his 1,200 foremen had voted to be represented by the fast-growing and belligerent Foremen's Association of America...
...entire motor industry was girding itself for battle. Powerful, sprawling General Motors, which operates plants in many of the 22 states where F.A.A. locals are chartered, paid for advertisements to woo foremen away from the union. Meanwhile the industry buzzed with rumors that if F.A.A. persisted, its members would become straw bosses and a new category of '"super-foremen" would take over their work...
...Only one man, his friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...
There was no transportation for the delivery of food from the farms. Members of the Philippine Motor Transport Association appealed to President Sergio Osmeña's Government for help. Early in 1941 they had turned over to the U.S. Army some 2,000-odd busses. Now these were gone, and unless new busses could be brought in, highway travel would remain at a standstill...