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Newsmen who received this information at a hastily whipped-up press conference in Detroit's Statler Hotel were not surprised. (Some who had visited Willow Run last week had seen only one car on the assembly line.) Why Kaiser would put aside one car because of "tooling" difficulties, then start a new one for which more tooling must be done, was not explained...
...when would the Kaiser Special be in production, asked reporters. This month, said Henry. Before reporters could find out more about this production miracle, Son Edgar rose, said his father had compelling business to attend to, would have to leave at once for Willow...
...backward U.S. country districts last week (and not-so-backward ones, too), "water witches" paced solemnly, holding forked twigs of peachwood, hazel, willow or witch-hazel, the butts pointed upward. Some muttered incantations; some prayed; some were intensely silent. At last the twig swung downward or spun around wildly...
Spring in Hunan is about as fair a sight as any landscape painter could want. Rain-washed red hillsides are green again. Young willow leaves festoon the roads winding through the rice paddies. But the springtime beauty of this central Chinese province, one of the nation's "rice bowls," ends with the landscape. A portrait painter in Hunan would find an ugly subject-the bitter, bony face of famine...
Automakers have steered clear of aluminum bodies, because they are expensive (sheet aluminum is 20-30? a Ib. v. 3? for steel) and a brand-new technique must be evolved to make them. Skeptical Detroit, which has seen production dates at Willow Run edged farther & farther away, will not believe that Kaiser can do it until he does...