Word: willow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring in Hunan is about as fair a sight as any landscape painter could want. Rain-washed red hillsides are green again. Young willow leaves festoon the roads winding through the rice paddies. But the springtime beauty of this central Chinese province, one of the nation's "rice bowls," ends with the landscape. A portrait painter in Hunan would find an ugly subject-the bitter, bony face of famine...
...Kaiser and probably for Graham-Paige's Frazer. Reason: up till last week K-F had no steel. All it had was promises. Graham-Paige was sure of some steel, but not enough both to permit Graham to get into auto production in Willow Run, now estimated for the end of April, and for K-F to build up a backlog of parts it needs for Kaiser production, now fixed for midsummer...
Automakers have steered clear of aluminum bodies, because they are expensive (sheet aluminum is 20-30? a Ib. v. 3? for steel) and a brand-new technique must be evolved to make them. Skeptical Detroit, which has seen production dates at Willow Run edged farther & farther away, will not believe that Kaiser can do it until he does...
...Joseph Washington Frazer became board chairman of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., he got 45,600 shares of Graham stock for himself as part of the deal. The stock was then selling at $3.62½ a share. Joe Frazer soon changed that. He teamed up with Henry J. Kaiser, leased Willow Run, talked glowingly of Graham-Paige's future with Joe and his Frazer...
...policy committee to supply him with the answers. On the cornmittee are: Labor-Relations Expert John Bugas, onetime director of the FBI's Detroit office and now the company's No. 2 policymaker; black-haired, gruff Mead L. Bricker, the production boss who "saved" Willow Run; John R. Davis, the cheerful, shrewd boss of sales and advertising; pint-sized R. H. McCarroll, now executive engineer but chief chemical engineer for 22 of the 30 years he has been with the corporation; Secretary Herman Moekle; Treasurer B. J. Craig and Purchasing Agent Charles Carroll...