Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle began at Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge plant in Hamtramck, a Detroit suburb noted for its putrescent politics and its high proportion (90%) of Polish-Americans. As 1940 Dodges took shape on the assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up on botched work, missing parts. Harassed Dodge bosses were up against a new flowering of an old technique-the slowdown. After Dodge fired 64 union sloths, then refused to reinstate them, every second unit slid untouched past key workers. Union girls refused to touch De Soto arm rests on a parts...
...also shown two other qualities that the hard-riding U. S. motor industry requires of all its topflight executives: the stamina to hold up under hard work, the singleness of purpose that eventually makes "the plant" the be-all and end-all of their existence...
...playhouse is "the plant." When he is in Detroit he gets to the office at 9 o'clock in the morning, gets out of it as soon as he can get through the mail, to go through one of the factories and to spend long hours in the engineering department. When he is on the road visiting the Chrysler factories outside Detroit, he spends his nights on Pullmans, his days in inspection and in whooping up the sales force. He hasn't had a drink since 1927 when his doctors assured him it was bad for his health...
Sabotage (Republic) starts out right innocently as that folksy love story about the young airplane mechanic and the traveling show girl in the quietest little Mid-American village in Hollywood. But when it shows U. S. average citizens organized by some mysterious agency to wreck airplanes, spoil machines, plant bombs by night in factories where the bomb-planters make their living by day, then uncorks a Hollywood program of vigilantes and kangaroo courts for dealing with them, Sabotage begins to look like the well-timed opening gun in a campaign to shoot for the witch-hunter trade...
When every military plane young Mechanic Tommy Grayson (Gordon Oliver) works on crashes, G-men arrest him on the day he is to be married to Show Girl Gail (Arleen Whelan), force the plant to close. Tommy's father, mild-eyed, poker-faced Major Grayson ( Charles Grapewin), native as a corn shuck, sets out to prove him innocent. By such slightly off-the-record stunts as burglarizing the plane factory and carrying off Tommy's gauges to check, breaking into a neighbor's house and rifling his closet, the Major sleuths out a sabotage gang, finds most...