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...afternoon last week, workers on B-29s in Boeing's Seattle and Renton, Wash, plants lifted their heads at the sudden blare of loudspeakers. In short, crisp sentences, the bad news came. The U.S. Army, which had planned to cut back Boeing's B-29 production gradually, had suddenly decided to swing the big ax. Instead of 122 B-29s this month, it wanted only 50; instead of 20 next month, it wanted only...
Next day, the Seattle plant shut down entirely; the Renton plant closed everything but the final assembly line. Cheerfully, 21,200 of the 29,000 workers lined up outside the plants to be paid off (see cut). Said one, grinning: "I knew it wouldn't last much longer anyway...
...west to trouble-shoot a critical manpower problem at Boeing Aircraft Co.'s plant (Renton, Wash.), WPB Chairman Julius A. Krug is stopping off this week in his home town of Madison, Wis. The citizens have something for him to see. They want to show him the R.M.R. Corp. plant, where practically everybody in Madison works at one time or another, turning out special batteries for Army walkie-talkie sets...
...great silvery plane rolled out of Boeing's plant at Renton, Wash, last week for its first secret test flight. Elliott Merrill, Boeing's crack test pilot, revved up the plane's four 2,200-h.p. motors till the earth trembled. Then the 130,000-lb. plane skimmed along the runway, lifted easily into the air. An hour later Pilot Merrill grinned: "She handles easier than...
...last week a gawky, sallow-faced man of 39 stood in the U. S. Immigration station on San Francisco's Angel Island and swore to tell the whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...