Word: willow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year old. But no cake and candles were needed to tell established automakers last week that U.S. industry's noisiest postwar baby was about ready to climb out of the crib. Even those who still scoffed at K-F's extravagant promises now looked with respect toward Willow...
Hanging his hat on the weeping willow tree and brushing the lawn from his eyes the other day, Ratchford recalled the sage advice given him by the late Roger Bigelow Merriam, original Eliot House Master. "Ratchford," Merriam declared, "the way to get to be a full professor here is to stay around the College. If you're here long enough, you're bound to get an endowed chair." So Ratchford heeded the tip, and began to wait hopefully for the inevitable day. He's still bucking for section...
...shiny new cars. One, in which Joe rode down to the City Hall himself, was the $1,600 Frazer. The other was the slightly cheaper Kaiser Special. Both of them, said Joe Frazer proudly, had been built "on the production line" in the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s Willow Run plant. New York was impressed...
...Detroit. In Willow Run there were only 50 chassis in various stages of construction on the two production lines. Feeder lines for parts were not yet in operation. Cars were still being pushed down the assembly line by hand. In fact, by ordinary production-line standards, the cars were being handmade. In the light of this, Joe Frazer's prediction that K-F would make 2,500 cars in August seemed highly optimistic. Nevertheless, none could say that Joe and Henry, with plenty of help from son Edgar Kaiser, weren't doing their darnedest to make cars...
Because of supplier strikes and production-line bugs, at week's end only five pilot cars had rolled off the Willow Run lines...