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...Seventy percent of the nation's entire production of light tanks, "jeeps," armored trucks, scout cars was imperiled, according to the War Department, by a dispute at Spicer Manufacturing Corp., makers of truck transmissions. Reason: squabble between A.F. of L. Montagues & C.I.O. Capulets. Because transmissions are the guts of any shaft-driven car, production of combat cars was threatened at the American Car & Foundry plant in Berwick, Pa., at Ford, White Motor Co., Willys-Overland...
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...
...Pausing an instant to collect his energies, Billy Patterson dashed at the head of the column. . . . Patterson had utterly routed the front, when 'Spicer' who was bringing up the rear . . . prepared to meet the burly antagonist...
...next morning 'Nicholas Spicer' learned that two policemen were on the lookout for the man who struck Billy Patterson. . . . His distaste for legal proceedings caused him to lay the case before a friend at the hotel. . . . This gentleman engaged two newsboys to traverse the streets of the city, asking every person old or young, 'Who struck Billy Patterson?' The policemen soon retired, but the question was caught up by hundreds of lips, and the query soon found a place in the daily journals, whence it spread with electric rapidity through all parts of the Union...
...from the easy chair. Perhaps it might be best summed up by saying that if Mr. Leys' farce doesn't sell out this number then Cambridge doesn't recognize its own true genius--in humor at least. If in judging the stories submitted a fairminded judge had seen "Spiking Spicer" first, no one--else--the rest is death--what? Certainly not an intellectual number (the Reviewer didn't see the Political Supplement), but an essentially enjoyable...