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...Navy plane flew into Detroit's City Airport from Washington one noon last week. Out hopped a Navy officer, a bulging brief case under his arm. He stepped into a car, sped to the Navy's $60,000,000 arsenal, operated by the Hudson Motor Car Co. There he pulled sheaves of mimeographed notices from his brief case, ordered them distributed to arsenal officials and workers. The notice: "The Navy Department has determined that it is to the best interests of the Government to change the operating management of the Naval Ordnance Plant...
Indicted: National Bronze's bespectacled mustached President John L. Schmel-ler; his brother Frank, general manager-another brother, Edward, chief metallurgist; four other top company officials, and the company itself. The charge-conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by selling defective castings to the Packard Motor Car Co. for use in Rolls-Royce airplane motors. The Schmellers and the others were ousted from the company and tried last week in Cleveland's Federal Court. There, more than 100 witnesses minutely detailed the plot against...
Spry, dry Henry Ford is again shaking up his fabulous empire. After 16 years of trying newfangled ideas, the sum of the evidence is that the Ford Motor Co. is going back to first principles...
...never completely accepted. The three: stocky, balding Laurence Spence Sheldrick, who came to Ford 20 years ago and has long worked as chief engineer; lean, sandy-haired Eugene Turrenne Gregorie, boss of the body-design division; quiet, patient Cornelius Willett Van Ranst, who helped develop the Ford airplane motor which now powers Ford-made tanks...
Henry Ford kept his shrewd mouth shut clam-tight about the changes. But many a motor-wise man made good guesses. Most likely: when auto production is resumed, Ford will drop its Zephyr and Lincoln-Continental lines; will turn its designing job over to outsiders again; will concentrate on turning out frill-free cars cheaper and faster than anyone else. In effect, the Lizzie would again become a kind of family jeep...