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This end meant also a beginning, of something greater than anything Detroit has seen in the 40-odd years of the motor industry. The industry had literally died and was being reborn-new, bigger, and completely different...
...John and his colleagues decided that their best chance of avoiding the invading armies was to head for the coast and find a boat to take them to Greece. Finally four of them set out down the Adriatic in a 20-ft. sardine boat with a one-lunged outboard motor and a sail...
...Mutual), the exodus of war-hit industries from the air began in force last week. Chrysler Corp. cut down Major Bowes to a half-hour (CBS, Thurs. 9 p.m. E.S.T.); Lipton's Tea canceled Helen Hayes after Feb. 1 (CBS, Sunday 8 p.m. E.S.T.); then the Ford Motor Co. canceled the Ford Sunday Evening Hour (CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.), effective March 1. This was a grievous blow, and radiomen looked for more to follow...
Both Washington and Detroit agreed Nelson had picked no mere throne-warmer. Kanzler started off as a Detroit lawyer in 1915, moved into the Ford orbit a year later when he and Edsel Ford courted (and later married) sisters. With ack-ack rapidity, Kanzler became Ford Motor Co. production manager, then director, then vice president. From Big Bill Knudsen (who then worked for Ford), he picked up production dope never taught in a law school. But Kanzler was always a lawyer, never a down-in-the-shop production man. So in 1926 he became executive vice president of Ford-controlled...
Onto each U.S. Liberty ship go four 31-passenger Globe American lifeboats, one motor-equipped, all equipped with oars, red sails, water, food, signaling and first-aid equipment. Every day at Kokomo four fully equipped boats are put on a flatcar, shipped to Atlantic, Pacific or Gulf shipyards, there hoisted to the davits of a new U.S. cargo vessel. Day after Franklin Roosevelt announced his Victory Program, Alden Chester wired the Maritime Commission, offered to furnish all lifeboats and life rafts needed for the entire merchant-marine building program-without subcontracting...