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Last week Joseph Washington Frazer reached the motor magnates' Valhalla. He had been elected board chairman of Graham-Paige Motors Corp.; now Joe Frazer could make and sell his own automobiles. In a happy hubbub, almost like old times, he watched telegrams coming in from dealers all over the country, asking for postwar franchises...
Appointments were handled by Mrs. Bonn, who arranged with the Cambridge Center Red Cross Motor Corps for transporting the men to the Boston Red Cross Blood Bank, where the actual donations took place. Groups as large as 50 gave blood at one time...
...Down. For almost all corporations, big & small, cutbacks and contract cancellations were the barometer for profits. For example, Remington Arms Co., which pocketed $2,498,000 by mid-1943, this year estimated that its profits had melted to $704,000. Similarly, White Motor Co. slumped to $866,519 v. $1,814,454 in 1943. Even General Motors, biggest U.S. war producer, had shifts in production that knocked down its volume in the second quarter. Despite this, G.M. six-months earnings were $82,769,895 against last year...
...Marshal Goring, the Führer has entrusted to me the task of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort: . . . I promise the German people to leave nothing untried in order to make Germany in a few weeks fit for war in every way. . . . The Party will be the motor of the entire process of reorganization. It will serve with its usual energy in the task of freeing soldiers for the front and workers for the production of armaments. . . The whole State machinery, including the railroads, post office, institutions and enterprises, will be scrutinized . . . for the Wehrmacht. . . . Public life...
...motor-transportation crisis, long foreseen, has arrived. But the crisis comes not from a shortage of rubber, but of workers and equipment with which to produce heavy-duty tires...