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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...production of war materials, surpassed only by the U.S., Russia and Great Britain. Proud of that position and its record of 70% of its production shipped to allies, Munitions Minister C. D. Howe reported last week that Canada now has a weekly production of: 80 airplanes, 4,000 motor vehicles, 450 fighting vehicles, six escort, cargo or patrol vessels, 940 heavy guns, 13,000 small weapons, 525,000 rounds of heavy ammunition, 25,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 10,000 tons of chemicals and explosives, $4,000,000 worth of instrument and communications equipment...
...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...