Word: willow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final payoff in Fairchild's long and bitter wrangle with Kaiser, whose subsidiary. Chase Aircraft, had designed the C-123. The trouble started soon after Korea, when the Air Force farmed out an order for 159 of Fairchild's Cng cargo planes to Kaiser's Willow Run plant. Fairchild thought it should be allowed to make the C-119's itself. Kaiser not only kept the C-119 contract but got another, for 244 of Kaiser's own Chase C-123 Avitrucs. But K-F's costs were so high...
...scheduled 1953 output. Chevrolet cannot make enough Powerglide transmissions to supply Pontiac, and Buick cannot fill all of Cadillac's needs for Dynaflow transmissions. But the fire will not affect G.M.'s 1954 models, which will use transmissions made in rented quarters at Willow...
...been closed since June. Said G.M. President Harlow Curtice after inspecting Livonia: "At this moment every facility ... is being concentrated on the extensive rebuilding job that faces us . . ." Curtice moved fast, this week took steps to lease 1,500,000 sq. ft. of idle Kaiser Motors Corp. space at Willow Run to set up an emergency transmission plant...
Last week, some Agriculture Department officials and farm leaders were predicting that more than two-thirds of the farmers will vote yes. Said Farmer Lynn Wallen of Nebraska's Red Willow County: "I can't see any reason why wheat farmers should ever vote for $1.20 and against $2.20 a bushel...
KAISER Motors Corp., whose big Willow Run plant has been shut down ever since the Air Force canceled its contracts for C-119 Flying Boxcars (TIME, July 6), will keep the plant closed for good unless the C.I.O. Auto Workers agree to a new contract permitting a relaxation of seniority rules so that workers can be used more efficiently. President Edgar Kaiser is moving final assembly operations permanently to his Willys Motors plant at Toledo, but he hopes to use Willow Run to make parts if the union is willing to cooperate...