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...placid little (pop. 6,949) Midland, Ont. on the shores of Lake Huron, 24 newly arrived German workmen last week began uncrating $100,000 worth of optical machinery in a rented curling rink. The workers, from Leitz's famed optical works at Wetzlar, began setting up lens-grinders, buffers, drills, in preparation for moving into a new $200,000 factory near by. There they will assemble Leica cameras, photo accessories, special lenses, and aim for a share of rearmament's precision optical orders...
...week to the highest bidder at an auction from which Leitz is barred). To choose the site, 81-year-old Dr. Ernst Leitz, son of the founder, sent over his 46-year-old son and namesake who thought that Midland, with its lake and nearby rivers, looked enough like Wetzlar to keep the emigre workmen from getting too homesick...
...great I. G. Farben plant in Leverkusen has already asked the Military Government for permission to make a long list of chemicals out of raw materials on hand. Meanwhile it is feeding 6,000 workers a day out of its food stocks. In Wetzlar, there is a steel plant which covers approximately 16 city-blocks. The Army noted: "Despite tremendous bomb damage around the plant, it has not been injured except by foreign workers...