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...Department, by a dispute at Spicer Manufacturing Corp., makers of truck transmissions. Reason: squabble between A.F. of L. Montagues & C.I.O. Capulets. Because transmissions are the guts of any shaft-driven car, production of combat cars was threatened at the American Car & Foundry plant in Berwick, Pa., at Ford, White Motor Co., Willys-Overland...
...captain in the coast artillery reserves, Zimmerman is stationed at Fort Williams, near Portland, Maine, where he has charge of motor transportation for five forts in that area. His family remain in Winchester...
Approximately 40 employees walked out at the Briggs Body Company's Mack Avenue plant and the Dodge division of the Chrysler Motor Corp. A shortage of Briggs-made equipment forced Chrysler's Plymouth plant to curtail operations...
Mayor Ed Kelly of Chicago had a two-hour lunch last week with President Roosevelt. That day and the next he conferred at length and stormily with Harry Hopkins, John Daniel Hertz (ex-Yellow Cab magnate and now with Army's Motor Transport Division), who is a friend of Kelly's, a father confessor to Hopkins; Federal Lender Jesse Jones, and other key insiders. What Mayor Kelly said was not reported in the press. It would have made big headlines if it had been...
...Chicago ex-gambling-house operator, a half interest in Joe. Meanwhile Roxborough grew fond of the good-natured, easygoing lad, took him home, taught him to brush his teeth, take a bath, eat with a knife & fork. He got Joe a job as an unskilled laborer at the Ford Motor plant, dressed him in castoffs, gave him $5 a week for spending money...