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...Willow Run he rode with Henry and Edsel Ford down the half-mile assembly line. It was unbearably hot under the miles of mercury-vapor tubes that light the huge plant; the radiator of his car began to boil...
When he was gone, the phone calls poured in at newspaper switchboards. Some of them were from wives whose husbands had arrived home three hours late from Willow Run. The newspapers had to plead ignorance, couldn't support the husband's alibis...
...Month ago a fence with a gate was put around one department at Ford's Willow Run plant so there could be a check on whether men who wandered around were on legitimate errands. At noon the whole department promptly sat down. By 3 p.m. the fence was down...
...drive along the road and see hundreds of men-whites here, blacks there- standing under a shower, washing off a half-inch accumulation of the day's grime. Soldiers love to pick quaint names for their camps: Virgin Lane, Luna(tic) Park, Scroungers' Rest, Hog Willow, and One Hundred Twenty-fifth Street...
...plans to recruit 80,000 are in the works. Detroit's experience with them has been happy. When jobs are cut down to their size, when working conditions are fitted to their needs, they do well-often better than men. Significant is Ford's program at Willow Run: 19,000 women have already been trained...