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Many of the plants hit by the sweeping cutbacks, such as Douglas, Consolidated Vultee and Lockheed, had a cushion: some of the manpower and facilities will be shifted to making planes for the Pacific war. But for Henry Ford's Willow Run, there was nothing to soften the blow. Three days after the cutback came, Willow Run began to lay off its 22,000 workers, thousands at a time. By the end of July all will be gone. Then the vast, $100,000,000 plant will be closed up tight. WPB, caught flat-footed by the Army...
Blessing in Disguise. To Detroit's automakers, badly pinched for manpower, this was a blessing. The Willow Run shutdown-and the other cutbacks-will free upwards of 70,000 workers in the Detroit area. For the first time in three years, Detroit will have labor to spare...
...rolling syllables (Maine is the only one-syllable state name in the Union). With profound respect for a great democrat, Congress named three tributaries of the Jefferson River Philosophy, Wisdom and Philanthropy - only to find the people of the region stubbornly continuing to call them what they always had: Willow Creek, Big Hole and Stinking Water...
...South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
...will be disappointed. In its 153 pages they will find the usual bitter-sweet taste and tragicomic personalities-freakish but heartwarming outcasts; birds and animals with the attractiveness of charming children; the waiters scurrying to & fro with black bread, liverwurst and seidels of foaming beer; chestnut and willow trees; nostalgia, trouble and human patience. But at the heart of these things is a brood of despicable Nazis; and when he comes down to earth to describe their piggish, ruthless natures, Bemelmans drops his magic wand for an unwieldy club. The art and appeal .of The Blue Danube are mostly...