Word: overlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toledo, with 500-odd industrial plants, had $60,000,000 in prime defense contracts (Willys-Overland, Electric Auto-Lite, Spicer Manufacturing) and $65,000,000 in subcontracts. In a city like Toledo, that is chicken feed. Toledo is chiefly a partsmaker for Detroit; and with Detroit auto production scheduled for a 48.4% curtailment in December, Toledo's 51 parts plants felt the blow first. Auto-Lite had laid off 1,500 men because Chrysler would need fewer ignition systems, batteries, instruments. Of Toledo's 54,600 industrial workers, 4,000 were already out of jobs. In the next...
...lesser need for its asbestos and platinum. But the U.S. cannot get them, no matter what agreements are signed. Much of Russia's manganese is mined in Transcaucasia, was formerly shipped to the U.S. through the Mediterranean. Now it would have to be shipped 7,766 miles overland to Vladivostok, thence across the Pacific (where shipping space is more precious than platinum), or around Africa via Baku, Iran and the Persian Gulf. Not an ounce of Russian manganese has arrived in the U.S. since last December...
...Army will need a lot more tank destroyers than it had last week. It soon will have them: the armored trucks which carry the 75s are in quantity production; 75-mm. guns are one thing the Army has a lot of. Henry Ford, American Bantam Car Co. and Willys-Overland are turning out thousands of jeeps, although 37-mm. gun production is still far behind the need. Still newer versions of destroyers are on the way, including a bigger-calibre anti-tank gun which eventually will relegate the 37 to the status of a third-line weapon...
General Motors 361,815 29.2 Chrysler 188,849 31.4 Ford 151,845 16.9 Majors 702,509 27.6 Studebaker 35,289 23.5 Hudson 25,874 38.2 Nash 21,972 4.9* Packard 23,056 10.3 Willys-Overland 7,768 7.1 Crosley 333 80.0* Independents 114,292 20.2 All companies...
...eleven: Ford's R. I. Roberge, General Motors' Donaldson Brown, Chrysler's B. E. Hutchinson, Studebaker's Paul G. Hoffman, Willys-Overland's J. W. Frazer, Nash-Kelvinator's George Mason, Hudson's A. E. Barit, International Harvester's W. F. McAfee, Diamond T Motor's E. J. Bush, White's Robert Black, Autocar's Robert P. Page...