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Charles Augustus Lindbergh turned up at his new job at Ford's Willow Run plant, wearing "Victory model" trousers (sans cuffs), posed with his boss for photographers...
...Detroit, another lean individualist who was also a mechanic thought he knew a good wrench man when he saw him. He could use another man at vast Willow...
Last week Henry Ford invited the wrench man to Detroit, lunched with him, pointed proudly at Willow Run, offered the onetime hero a "supervisory" job. Lindbergh said he must ask the War Department. In Washington Secretary Stimson nodded. Lindbergh begins work this week...
...approach to all problems is: "Let's go out and look at the goddamn thing." Such is Eddie Hunt, 50, of Chrysler's tank arsenal, who is built like an iron safe and never wore a white shirt until last year. Such is slim Roscoe Smith, the Willow Run manager, a veteran tool & diemaker, who at 50 looks...
...Pratt & Whitney plant, he figured that OPM had set its sights too low, left one end of the building open for extensions. Without any nod from Washington, he turned an engineer loose on a V12 liquid-cooled engine of his own. He started putting up Willow Run on the sole basis of a relatively small order for sub-assemblies...