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...mass meeting from 8 o'clock until 9 Ruhl J. Bartlett and Major W. G. Constable. British attache, will speak on International Cooperation for peace." and Abram K. Zelveian will discuss a "Mediterranean Federation...
...RUHL J. BARTLETT...
Spark plug of this achievement was Universal's pudgy, tireless Works Manager William A. Ruhl (who used to make Nash automobiles). When Universal contracted to manufacture Johnson parts last year, Bill Ruhl lacked tools and materials, had no priority status whatsoever to help get them. By airplane, train, telephone he ransacked the already overburdened machine-tool market, just as many another tool-hungry competitor was doing...
...Bill Ruhl did more: he found ways to turn scores of his textile tools to the production of gun parts. Throughout Universal's great shops, identical machines standing side by side turned out parts for textile winders, parts for Johnsons. Example: the same tools last week were spitting out pulleys for the winders, cams for the rifles...
...Manager Ruhl had never made a gun or a gun part. Nor, so far as he knew, had any of his workmen. The specialized knowledge had to come from Inventor Johnson himself and from the boss of his barrel shop, an acidulous, gun-goofy Swede named Carl Ekdahl. By their joint ingenuity Johnson, Ekdahl, Ruhl & Co. had by last week piled up 5,300 finished barrels, 11,000 more barrels in process, 10,000 breech bolts, hundreds and thousands of other parts, before a gun was assembled...