Word: reuther
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Bennett got a cracked head in a fight outside the Rouge plant in 1932, in which four jobless marchers were killed. Brutally beaten by Ford agents were two other men who are now in the very front rank of U. A. W.-Richard Frankensteen and Walter Reuther (whose plan for making airplane parts in auto factories was projected last winter). Brutal beatings took place in Dallas...
...most telling pages seek to smash an illusion and restore a faith. The illusion, mass production of military airplanes, was stimulated by 1) Franklin Roosevelt's call for 50,000 planes a year, 2) Henry Ford's dream of 1,000 planes a day, 3) Walter Reuther's dream of 500 planes a day within six months. Even assuming them to be all of one type, 50,000 planes a year is still not mass production, FORTUNE points out, and could not justify the expensive specialized tooling required by mass-production methods. The military airplane relies...
...Most sensational defense proposal as 1941 opened was C.I.O.'s Walter P. Reuther's that...
...numbers as well as in product the planned output of the Big Three was a long way from the plan of C. I. O.'s Walter Reuther for putting Detroit to work (TIME, Dec. 30). Mr. Reuther had made a good but obvious point when he said that the automotive industry could do a big job of airplane building. But his further assertion that the industry, given a six months' start, could produce 500 pursuit planes a day had long since been dismissed as fantastic. For, even if that rate could be attained, nobody would know what...
Last week earnest Mr. Reuther announced that his 500-a-day figure was only his yardstick of Detroit's potential capacity, that the automotive industry could as well make an imposing (but lesser) number of two-and four-motored bombers...