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...flint-hard, fact-minded Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson made his first visit last week to the vast, pin-neat Willow Run bomber plant. After inspecting the mile-long assembly line, looking over production schedules, talking to production bosses, he gave out a confident statement. Said he: "The Willow Run plant is on the beam. . . . Willow Run will be in full production, turning out 500 planes a month, by the time the next snow flies...
Next day it snowed in Detroit. Once again the joke was on Willow...
...this might very well be the last laugh at Willow Run's expense; no longer may aviation experts be able to wisecrack: "Willit Run?" Eleven months after the first bomber was put together, Willow Run finally seemed to be really under...
...citizens of Atlanta have watched for months the building of one of the biggest things that man has ever made: Bell Aircraft's Marietta Aircraft Assembly Plant, which rivals and may even exceed Ford's famed but fumbling Willow...
...first time, the War Production Board conceded last week that all was not well with Henry Ford's famed Willow Run bomber plant. The 975-acre plant was scheduled to start rolling out bombers last summer, was popularly supposed to produce a bomber an hour eventually. But WPB now admitted: "There have been many disappointments in connection with the Willow Run operation, and the plant, even now, is far from peak production...