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...automobile industry is, in reality, the expert integration of thousands of large and small concerns, and its companies to a large extent are the assemblers of parts produced by others. In 1937 for example (latest year for which segregated figures are available), total value of products manufactured in motor vehicle plants was $3 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, whereas dollar value of bodies and parts manufactured under the "farming out" plan totaled $2 billion. In addition, $744 million was represented by accessories and supplies made by "nonautomotive" concerns...
Hugh Drum showed himself as foxy as ever. On the first day of the battle, he sent a young lieutenant and a motorized cavalry patrol on a 200-mile run around his left end to see what they could find. One of his motorcycle men turned up next day with just what the boss wanted-the Reds' combat plans. The patrol had raided a motor park far in the rear, swiped a batch of marked maps and combat orders and made off with them...
...Webster is the man to watch in Ellington's band from now on. With Chu Berry dead in a motor accident some weeks ago and Coleman Hawkins playing with only infrequent imagination, Ben has little competition among his follow exponents of the tenor saxophone, and Duke is giving him ample leeway. On these two records he plays rich, flowing solos in a smooth, generally conjunct melodic line, supported chiefly by a well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today...
Another rugged individualist has enlisted in the U.S. defense program-which needs more of them. Frank Pembroke ("Huck") Huckins is a blunt Boston Yankee with confidence to burn. Last year he told the Navy he could make a motor torpedo boat which wouldn't pound the teeth out of its crew. To most old salts, this sounded fantastic. But since Huckins was willing to spend his own money on the boat-if the Navy would just supply the engines-the Navy turned him loose...
...lumber business because he liked boats better. He is the designer; his partner, a close-mouthed Yankee named Henry Skinner Baldwin, is the businessman. Their Fairform Flyers (produced at a profit each year even during the depression) are expensive, carefully engineered boats known as the Duesenbergs of the small motor yacht class...