Word: willow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corporation has already contracted to turn about 40% of its capacity (50,000 tons a month) over to K-F. Under an agreement with Wheeling, the ingots will be rolled into body and fender sheets at its Steubenville plant, only 250 miles from Willow Run. The steel from Portsmouth will cost more than that from outside suppliers...
...steel deal, Kaiser hopes to end one of his prime headaches. Once promised steel by U.S. and National Steel, he has had little delivered so far. Fortnight ago he was forced to start shipping steel to Willow Run from his own plant at Fontana, Calif., an expensive procedure. Now he plans to ship only enough from Fontana for 15,000 cars, expects to be getting steel from Portsmouth by the time these are finished. This should give him plenty of time to put the deal through...
Newsmen who received this information at a hastily whipped-up press conference in Detroit's Statler Hotel were not surprised. (Some who had visited Willow Run last week had seen only one car on the assembly line.) Why Kaiser would put aside one car because of "tooling" difficulties, then start a new one for which more tooling must be done, was not explained...
...when would the Kaiser Special be in production, asked reporters. This month, said Henry. Before reporters could find out more about this production miracle, Son Edgar rose, said his father had compelling business to attend to, would have to leave at once for Willow...
...backward U.S. country districts last week (and not-so-backward ones, too), "water witches" paced solemnly, holding forked twigs of peachwood, hazel, willow or witch-hazel, the butts pointed upward. Some muttered incantations; some prayed; some were intensely silent. At last the twig swung downward or spun around wildly...