Word: rockford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junction of two country roads near Rockford, Ill. stands one of the queerest of all U.S. war plants. It is a white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...
...There are very serious local shortages. Worst of these are in Portland, Me.; Hartford; Buffalo; Baltimore; Washington, D.C.; Hampton Roads, Va.; Charleston, S.C.; Mobile, Ala.; Rockford, Beloit area, Rock Island, and Moline, Ill.; Davenport, Iowa; Seattle-Tacoma; Portland, Ore.; Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego. And shortages are already on the horizon in such key cities as Detroit, Akron, Wichita, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Both WPB and WMC are now committed to a policy of "bringing work to the labor, not labor to the work...
...Rockford...
...Angeles. Her first, Susan Ann Gilbert, 8, is the daughter of the late John Gilbert. Married. Ruth Elizabeth McCormick, daughter of onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and the late Senator Medill McCormick, granddaughter of the late President-maker Mark Hanna; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr. of Rockford, Ill.; near Rockford...
...Rockford...