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Defense Experience: In World War II, Wilson converted his industrial giant (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Frigidaire, diesel engines, AC Spark Plug, Hyatt Bearings and 23 other divisions) to war production. G.M. made nearly one-fourth of all the tanks, armored cars and airplane engines produced in the U.S. during World War II, almost half of all the machine guns and carbines, two-thirds of all the large trucks. At war's end, Wilson reconverted G.M. to peacetime production at top speed and partially converted to defense production when the Korean war broke out. Today, Wilson...
...town as usual. They roamed the streets and pushed at doorbells; they begged for cookies and smeared the store windows with slogans written in soap. But one window they steadfastly refused to touch. On the morning after the big night, the plate glass of the Higgins-Pontiac showroom was, as always, clean...
...last 20 years, it has become something of a Ferndale tradition for the youngsters to pay George N. Higgins this special tribute. A bluff, grey-haired man of 52, he is a familiar figure around town. He runs a trucking firm as well as the Pontiac agency, and for six years he has also been a state senator. But his fame in Ferndale rests on quite another activity-his hobby of sending boys & girls through college...
...said to outfit you and charge it to Mr. Higgins." Last week George Higgins totted up his score, found that he had seen 75 boys & girls earn degrees at dozens of campuses from Annapolis to the University of Michigan. Each of the students has a folder in the Pontiac office, filled with clips and letters ("my heartwarming mementos"). Once in a great while, when a student seems to be taking things too easy at school, Higgins summons him home for a stern lecture ("You've got to scratch. You're not riding a gravy train...
...said it over & over again, from Hartford to Pontiac: his campaign's "simple purpose is to provide-in lieu of shopworn, bad government-to provide good government and good leadership for America .. ." At Troy, N.Y. he dealt with one example of "bad government": "Inflation, the thief that robs you every...