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Meanwhile, the Detroit area (including Ford of Canada's plant across the river at Windsor, Ont.) was having more than foreman trouble. About 22,000 of the area's U.A.W.-C.I.O. workers, disgruntled for a wide variety of reasons, walked out. Union officials pleaded with the wildcat strikers, cajoled, threatened to resign. WLB sent stern back-to-work orders. Most of Detroit's strikers gave in. But at week's end the score stood: 17,500 workers still out, three plants shut down...
When his beard grew long enough, he moved to the summer resort of San Bernardino. Calling himself a "geoastrophysiologist," he turned to Paraguay's favorite subject - her wildcat politics - and flatly predicted that Dr. José Patricio Guggiari would be elected President. To the astonishment of Guggiari, the prediction came true, and the prophet's reputation soared...
Like Captain Bong, the other seven, all Marines, racked up their records in the Pacific. Tops with 26 each are veteran Major Joe Foss (Grumman Wildcat) and Major Gregory Boyington (Vought Corsair), who disappeared after knocking down his last victim (TIME...
...with 19, is 28-year-old Lieut. Colonel John Lucian Smith Jr. (Wildcat) and No. 9, nosing out Beckham with 18, is Major Marion E. Carl (Wildcat...
...hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...