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...Pipe, Slippers & Fireside...
...Ford's Willow Run bomber plant nearly ready for 70,000 workers, there are virtually no houses near the plant and it is almost impossible to rent a house in Detroit, 25 miles away. Now plans are afoot for 45,000 new dwellings in the Detroit area but pipe for water lines is still lacking. And by year's end Detroit must house 190,000 more war workers...
...Temple was enthroned on a brilliant day, in one of England's loveliest springs. On the special train down from London, gaitered bishops and pipe-smoking clerics were as gay as schoolboys on a holiday outing...
Prime accusations: on Feb. 21 Jones & Laughlin was ordered to ship no steel pipe after March 14, except on preference orders rated A-9 or higher. Although the company had not manufactured such pipe since October 1941, it immediately put large quantities of high-quality steel into pipe production, and from February 25 to March 12 produced 570,000 feet of pipe. Only 12% of this total was delivered on rated orders. The rest went to civilian use. Summarized WPB: "These violations . . . contribute towards defeat of the declared intention of Congress...
...Groton Iron Works near by into a modern ten-way sub yard. While thus expanding, Ebco has performed a naval miracle. One of the world's toughest engineering jobs, a sub is a slim air-&-water-tight steel cigar packed with hundreds of miles of wire and pipe, condensed forests of instruments and machinery. Subs formerly took 25-29 months to build. Ebco, through standardization, subcontracting and a no-fooling, 162½-hour work week, has already cut this time tremendously. Last week, when it launched the Blackfish, Ebco also launched a new production record. In their rush...