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...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...
...During World War II, RFC invested and lent more than $9 billion to build 2,000 war plants, including a synthetic rubber industry, the Geneva steel plant in Utah, the Willow Run bomber plant, the Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines. It spent another $2 billion on raw materials to keep them out of Axis hands, spent $2.8 billion stockpiling strategic metals and minerals...
...Willow & Oak. Historian Thomas Macaulay penned a hard judgment on the founder of the Cecil family: "Of the willow and not of the oak." Bobbety is of the willow, pliable when he needs be to fill the job of Tory leader of the House of Lords, but he is also of the oak when principle is involved. Principle No. 1 is that Britain is not to be pushed around (his speech on the "scuttle" of Abadan was the most violent of all); principle No. 2 is that Britain's international conduct should be moral. Salisbury, the aristocrat, is aloofly...