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...Kaiser and probably for Graham-Paige's Frazer. Reason: up till last week K-F had no steel. All it had was promises. Graham-Paige was sure of some steel, but not enough both to permit Graham to get into auto production in Willow Run, now estimated for the end of April, and for K-F to build up a backlog of parts it needs for Kaiser production, now fixed for midsummer...
...Joseph Washington Frazer became board chairman of Graham-Paige Motors Corp., he got 45,600 shares of Graham stock for himself as part of the deal. The stock was then selling at $3.62½ a share. Joe Frazer soon changed that. He teamed up with Henry J. Kaiser, leased Willow Run, talked glowingly of Graham-Paige's future with Joe and his Frazer...
...policy committee to supply him with the answers. On the cornmittee are: Labor-Relations Expert John Bugas, onetime director of the FBI's Detroit office and now the company's No. 2 policymaker; black-haired, gruff Mead L. Bricker, the production boss who "saved" Willow Run; John R. Davis, the cheerful, shrewd boss of sales and advertising; pint-sized R. H. McCarroll, now executive engineer but chief chemical engineer for 22 of the 30 years he has been with the corporation; Secretary Herman Moekle; Treasurer B. J. Craig and Purchasing Agent Charles Carroll...
...Allies squeezed Germany in two, they got part of their wish. The armies moved too fast for the planners in Washington. The cutbacks came in a downpour; in two weeks the Army ended a $200,000,000 ammunition program, dropped plans to build twelve tank plants, announced that Willow Run would close...
...point in his favor: Willow Run's vast space is an ideal place in which to make cars and tractors, if the assembly lines can be made to tick smoothly. Plump, dapper Joe Frazer, optimistic as usual predicted that the Frazer would start coming off the lines in March, the Kaiser, with a front-wheel drive, by the middle of April. By July 1, he expects Willow Run to be in peak production of 1,500 cars...