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From Henry Ford's Willow Run plant, where he has been doing engineering research, Charles Augustus Lindbergh moved on a part-time basis last week to Hartford, Conn. He wants to do his high-altitude work closer to the industrial parent of the 2,000-h.p. engines Ford is manufacturing to power bombers and fighters. As an engineer for United Aircraft Corp., Pilot Lindbergh is back at the job he likes best -improving aircraft engines. As he has done for Ford, he will continue to go above 35,000 feet to test the devices he and other technicians develop...
...Chicago, Chrysler Corp. was completing an airplane motor factory bigger than even famed Willow Run. (see p. 92). Three coastlines were now a-clatter with shipyards. (Henry J. Kaiser, who had never built a ship until 20 months ago, now has built 320.) And from Michigan, center of U.S. mass production, came another significant announcement: the Detroit area, which produced only $36 million worth of materiel before Pearl Harbor, had produced $1,100 million since...
...together and Kahn's factory designs-"all-under-one-roof," later "all-on-one-floor"-became part & parcel of developing U.S. production; industry's demands for his services made Kahn a mass-producer himself. Ultimately he designed some 1,000 buildings for Henry Ford (including the vast Willow Run bomber plant), 127 major plants for General Motors, in four decades planned two billion dollars' worth of industrial building. Russia gave his engineers charge of the first Five Year Plan's heavy industrial building program; they built 521 factories in two years...
...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...