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Made of fiber, willow wood, leather, aluminum, steel or plastic, modern artificial limbs are light and adaptable: knee joints, for example, are adjustable for walking, sitting, even dancing. Artificial arms have a great variety of hand attachments. For public wear, there is usually a wooden hand, covered by a glove; for utility, a double hook arrangement to grasp small objects, and special fittings for eating, hammering, driving screws, etc. Before discharge, every man must be able to feed and dress himself...
...Mead Committee last week why they cannot sell the plants right now. Tall, drawling Sam H. Husbands, 53, ex-Florence, S.C. banker, is president of the Defense Plant Corp., which owns about 1,000 Government-built plants, which cost some $6.8 billion to build, including such giants as Willow Run. But most of the talking was done by Hans A. Klagsbrunn, 35, executive vice president and DPC counsel...
High Gear for Ford. Next day the newsmen traveled to Willow Run, sat down with Ford executives for lunch. There they got a shock. Ray Rausch, the plump, candid production boss of the Rouge plant, calmly predicted that the Ford company would turn out its first cars two months after...
Mohandas K. Gandhi was amused. To the tune of Tit-willow from Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, Khorshed Naoroji sang him a song just published in the Times of India...
According to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Construction, the destruction consisted mainly of felled poplar and willow trees, flooded cellars, and occasional roof leaks. The College maintenance department stayed up all night, swinging into action at 12 o'clock and working until the storm abated at 5 o'clock on Friday morning...