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Wrigley is starting out with only four teams, playing a circuit of war-busy towns within some 100 miles of one another: the Rockford (Ill.) Teachers, South Bend (Ind.) Blue Sox, Racine (Wis.) Belles, Kenosha (Wis.) Shamrocks. They will play 108 games this summer, with a post season play-off for the championship...
Last week, in the season's opening double-header at South Bend's Bendix Stadium, the Blue Sox got off in front with two orderly victories over the Rockford Teachers. Next night, in the second doubleheader, some of the polish wore thin. Despite Helena Rubinstein and Mr. Wrigley, two of the ladies got into a fish wife argument that nearly ended in a fist fight...
...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...
...Harrington twins have four subcontracts, have given jobs to two brothers-in-law and five other employes, who keep the same hectic hours and share the profits. Says Rockford's local WPB director: "They're doing a swell job. I don't think they knew what they were getting into when they started, but they had the nerve to make a success...
...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...