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...over-the trucks (their own and the enemy's), any new enemy weapons, for which Intelligence is always on the alert. Enemy vehicles were patched up, sometimes under fire, put to immediate use. Badly smashed cars and half-trucks were restored to useful life by "cannibalizing"-stealing a motor from one corpse, wheels from another, to make a single going machine from several wrecks...
Back in 1933, Willys nose-dived into receivership. In 1939 tall, round-faced, 200-lb. Joseph Washington Frazer came to Willys as president and general manager. To Joe Frazer the auto business was old stuff. At 20 he left Yale to take a mechanic's job with Packard Motor Car Co. at 16? an hour. He wanted to be in a business "where everything moved." One of the fastest movers was Joe Frazer. He left Packard for General Motors, switched to Chevrolet, left to form the Pierce Arrow Finance Co., settled down for a long stay with Chrysler Corp...
...Army sent specifications to 135 manufacturers. Bantam and Willys were the only two who answered, and Bantam received an order for 70 vehicles. The cars were promising but too light, so the Army increased the weight to about 2,200 lb., asked Bantam. Willys and Ford Motor Co. to build 1.500 each of the new cars. The Willys design was selected and the company was given a fat order for 16,000. To assure two sources of supply, Willys was instructed to turn its design over to Ford for manufacture. Bantam dropped...
...outstanding exception to the general policy was the Ford Motor Co. Henry Ford had long made it a practice to hire the handicapped in proportion to their presence in the plants' communities. The late Edsel Ford wrote in the Saturday Evening Post last winter that 10% of the company's employes in Detroit are handicapped-4,390 blind or deaf, 7,262 otherwise disabled...
Divorced. By Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge Lange, 24, onetime tele phone girl who inherited $2,500,000 from the late motor-heir Daniel George Dodge; U.S. Army Captain William Anding Lange, 33, peacetime plastic surgeon; in Detroit. Mrs. Lange said that her husband made her do all her own housework...