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...President of Minneapolis' Northern Ordnance, Inc. is a profane, rambunctious, Texas-born individual named John Blackstock Hawley Jr., 44. In the space of 15 months, Gunmaker Hawley has also become the biggest driller of wildcat oil wells in the U.S. And in all the rough-&-tough oil industry no one has yet been able to top Hawley's three-word description of himself: "I'm a pirate...
...Marine captain, flying his lonely Wildcat in the forbidding and ugly Solomons when he was shot down by Japs. He's been "missing in action" since a year ago last Jan. 2. Let those four self-righteous souls sit at home night after night with a son missing as ours has been missing, knowing not what might have been his gruesome fate, before they condemn us who would outlaw every Jap, no matter what his nativity...
...Public opinion has become inflamed against our union. . . . Our union cannot survive if the nation and our soldiers believe that we are obstructing the war effort. Either we set our house in order at once, cease all wildcat strikes, or we face an attack no union can withstand...
These words, heard by all U.S. labor, had particular pertinence to burly Rolland Jay Thomas' own union. U.A.W., largest union in the U.S. and at times the most ungovernable, was halving wildcat trouble again last week. Seven U.A.W.-organized Chrysler plants (11,700 employes) stopped making guns, plane and truck parts. Basis of the dispute: whether A.F. of L. or C.I.O. truckmen should deliver soda pop to the plants. Unioneer Thomas promptly ousted 15 officers of a U.A.W. local for participating in the "soda pop war," instructed his men to ignore picketlines...
Last month Major Richard Ira Bong, a P-38 Lightning pilot, shot down his 26th and 27th planes over New Guinea, breaking a tie which had long existed between two marine pilots, Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and missing Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair). Thus Dick Bong became the U.S. Ace of Aces...