Word: spicer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toledo, with 500-odd industrial plants, had $60,000,000 in prime defense contracts (Willys-Overland, Electric Auto-Lite, Spicer Manufacturing) and $65,000,000 in subcontracts. In a city like Toledo, that is chicken feed. Toledo is chiefly a partsmaker for Detroit; and with Detroit auto production scheduled for a 48.4% curtailment in December, Toledo's 51 parts plants felt the blow first. Auto-Lite had laid off 1,500 men because Chrysler would need fewer ignition systems, batteries, instruments. Of Toledo's 54,600 industrial workers, 4,000 were already out of jobs. In the next...