Word: willow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hasn't Mildred recorded of late? Blame it on her integrity. She'd signed a contract with Decca largely on the strength of her two best-selling Gems of Jazz reissues, made years before for English Parlophone. She'd sung four perennial jazz numbers: "Willow Tree," "Honey-suckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," and "Downhearted Blues." Only Decca now wanted her to sing the latest. Mildred as usual wanted to make her own choices. In an up-and-coming singer it might be foolishness, but in an artist who has been on top for over ten years, who has developed...
General Motors men wander freely in Ford's Willow Run; Ford men consult Chrysler men; Chrysler men lunch over blueprints with G.M. men; back-alley machine-shop men ask big-company engineers for help...
...Willow Run he rode with Henry and Edsel Ford down the half-mile assembly line. It was unbearably hot under the miles of mercury-vapor tubes that light the huge plant; the radiator of his car began to boil...
When he was gone, the phone calls poured in at newspaper switchboards. Some of them were from wives whose husbands had arrived home three hours late from Willow Run. The newspapers had to plead ignorance, couldn't support the husband's alibis...
...Month ago a fence with a gate was put around one department at Ford's Willow Run plant so there could be a check on whether men who wandered around were on legitimate errands. At noon the whole department promptly sat down. By 3 p.m. the fence was down...