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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into full production last week went one of the first new plants built especially for defense. It is long, low, windowless. air-conditioned, fireproof and allegedly bombproof, cost $1,000,000. Its site: Harvey, Ill. Its builder: the 60-year-old Buda (pronounced bewda) Co., a Diesel-building pioneer. Its product: a Diesel for U. S. Army tanks. The reason this plant reached full production last week was that an oil wildcatter was willing to take a chance...
...beautifully told love affair with a young working-class girl of the Old Town. Lyrical and delicate, this affair abruptly breaks off. Jallez has work with the League of Nations. He is well aware of its shortcomings, but hopeful nevertheless. "It is a temporary shanty put up on the site which will later be occupied by the Universal Church...
Farm to Factory. Four months ago the site of the Detroit Tank Arsenal was a farm, turning brown and sere under a hazy autumn sun. During the summer Big Bill Knudsen had called bulky K. T. Keller, president of Chrysler Corp., and asked him, as one motormaker to another: Could Chrysler build the Army a medium tank? "K. T." said, sure. Could he see one to get an idea what it was like...
...tank factory site was firm and dry when workmen began to clear it on Sept. 11. By early December it was a marshy morass. Mud-stained steelworkers slopped around in boots, sometimes worked up to their thighs in mud to get the arsenal's skeleton started. When the snows came they skinned along icy girders in biting wind, grinned back at the constructing quartermaster, bald, sunny Major H. R. Kadlec, when he asked them if the going was getting too tough. The few complaints they made were settled by their business agents and Kadlec (Detroiters called him Cadillac...
...raid shelters, dug deep into the chalk strata at the site, will be an added safety feature. The entire hospital has been designed to minimize dangers of flying glass and other air raid hazards...