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...cavernous Willow Run plant last week, workmen swarmed around an auto chassis, lifted in the motor, fastened on the wheels and then, finally, bolted on a body. In this handmade fashion, the Frazer, the first car of the new automaking team of Joe Frazer and Henry Kaiser, was turned out. Wider than most cars, and lower, it was Graham-Paige's contribution to the team. In a week, the new Kaiser-Frazer Corp. will turn out its contribution, the Kaiser car, made in the same fashion. Both corporations acquired something even more important, a top production man: Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: First for Frazer | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Willow Run the last of the Government-owned machines were being moved out only this week. Hunt will have to build up a production staff to install miles of conveyor belts in the bare building, move in acres of machine tools, erect long assembly lines. He has also taken on a job which some auto companies prefer to leave to outsiders, the highly specialized job of making his own bodies. It will be some two months before the huge presses to stamp them out are in the plant. Outside of this, Hunt will have to depend almost entirely on outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: First for Frazer | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...Perry County, Ky., a candidate for sheriff thumbed a banjo and sang a long ballad about a cabin boy on the ship Golden Willow Tree. The cabin boy had been promised the captain's daughter in marriage if he would sink a rival ship, The Roverie. The cabin boy "bored nine holes" in the Roverie and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Miserable but Exciting Songs | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...ladder to handle "new construction"). An oldtime automan, Bricker first went to work for Ford in 1904, left, then came back again for good in 1914. When World War II began, he was given Ford's toughest pro duction nuts to crack - antiaircraft guns, plane motors - and finally, Willow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Little Giant Goes | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...starting position are definite yet, and Coach Harlow is still looking for new material, but a tentative, lineup would certainly include Rod Perkins and Lou DiLuzio at the ends, Chet Pierce and Bill "Willow" Fisher at the tackles, Howle Foster and Mal Allen or Frank LeBart at the guards, and Pete Grady, Bob Faber, or Paul O'Leary at center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/2/1945 | See Source »

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