Word: willow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies squeezed Germany in two, they got part of their wish. The armies moved too fast for the planners in Washington. The cutbacks came in a downpour; in two weeks the Army ended a $200,000,000 ammunition program, dropped plans to build twelve tank plants, announced that Willow Run would close...
...cavernous Willow Run plant last week, workmen swarmed around an auto chassis, lifted in the motor, fastened on the wheels and then, finally, bolted on a body. In this handmade fashion, the Frazer, the first car of the new automaking team of Joe Frazer and Henry Kaiser, was turned out. Wider than most cars, and lower, it was Graham-Paige's contribution to the team. In a week, the new Kaiser-Frazer Corp. will turn out its contribution, the Kaiser car, made in the same fashion. Both corporations acquired something even more important, a top production man: Edward...
...Willow Run the last of the Government-owned machines were being moved out only this week. Hunt will have to build up a production staff to install miles of conveyor belts in the bare building, move in acres of machine tools, erect long assembly lines. He has also taken on a job which some auto companies prefer to leave to outsiders, the highly specialized job of making his own bodies. It will be some two months before the huge presses to stamp them out are in the plant. Outside of this, Hunt will have to depend almost entirely on outside...
...point in his favor: Willow Run's vast space is an ideal place in which to make cars and tractors, if the assembly lines can be made to tick smoothly. Plump, dapper Joe Frazer, optimistic as usual predicted that the Frazer would start coming off the lines in March, the Kaiser, with a front-wheel drive, by the middle of April. By July 1, he expects Willow Run to be in peak production of 1,500 cars...
...Perry County, Ky., a candidate for sheriff thumbed a banjo and sang a long ballad about a cabin boy on the ship Golden Willow Tree. The cabin boy had been promised the captain's daughter in marriage if he would sink a rival ship, The Roverie. The cabin boy "bored nine holes" in the Roverie and then...