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...union-authorized coal strikes were the most serious. In general the U.S. merely went on suffering from its apparently chronic rash of brief wildcat walkouts. At the huge Willow Run Liberator bomber plant, 2,000 key workers walked out one day, walked back in the next; they had entirely stalled production for more than 24 hours. In Chicago 600 employes at the Dodge plant, which makes 6-29 Superfortress engines, struck for three days, scurried back to work after a wounded Army private had pleaded with them. In Bessemer, Ala., male welders in the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. went...
...Wellesley an its new Freshman class was the scene of the most activity, as a howling mob swep down upon the poor defenseless little girlies. Ed Johnson and Art Hein challenge that last statement. It seems that both of these boys chanced upon the same young lady. While no willow thing, she was a girl, and that's something. Net result of the encounter: two badly bruised young Ensigns. It seen Miss Wellesley was the captain of the crew up there, and had no mean handshake...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, consulting engineer for United Aircraft and since March 1942 a Ford special consultant (with somewhat mysterious duties) at Willow Run, turned up in the Gilbert Islands, as a Navy instructor in high-altitude flying...
...noontime last week General Eisenhower inspected huge, noisy "Willow Run." the mass-production officers' mess in London's swank Grosvenor House. Refusing a table in the alcove reserved for rank, General "Ike" joined a line of junior officers at the cafeteria. In due course he collected pork, potatoes, spinach and salad...
...This week, spry old Henry Ford suggested that the railroads might not be needed after the peace. "With the full development of the airplane," said the master of Willow Run, "I really think the railroad will go in time...