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...imperiled, according to the War Department, by a dispute at Spicer Manufacturing Corp., makers of truck transmissions. Reason: squabble between A.F. of L. Montagues & C.I.O. Capulets. Because transmissions are the guts of any shaft-driven car, production of combat cars was threatened at the American Car & Foundry plant in Berwick, Pa., at Ford, White Motor Co., Willys-Overland...
...American Car & Foundry's huge Berwick, Pa. plant (capacity: 1,225 cars monthly) turned out only 73 cars in June...
Bulk of present tank production is coming from American Car & Foundry Co.'s light ( 13-ton) tank plant at Berwick, Pa. This week, with its rate up to 200 a month, A.C.F. delivers its 1,000th tank. Almost ready for production is an improved, 18-ton model with more armor, more punch. A.C.F. last week received a $12,500,000 Army order-presumably for these new light tanks...
...Army has a very good tank armor. That fact was proved last week to newsmen who visited the American Car & Foundry Co.'s light-tank plant at Berwick, Pa. A.C.F. showed off its new, remarkably tough 1-inch tank armor by firing 37-mm. shells into sample plates. The shells used in the tests had extra-heavy charges of explosives, but were fired from a standard 37-mm. anti-tank gun at the point-blank range of 100 yards. From A.C.F. armor placed at a sloping angle to the line of fire, the shells bounced without making a dent...
...Berwick v. Hipper. Somewhere in the North Atlantic on Christmas morning, the fast 10,000-ton British cruiser Berwick gave chase to a Nazi raider which attacked the Berwick's convoy with torpedo and shellfire. In stormy murk the enemy, which the British guessed by its speed to be a cruiser of the Admiral Hipper class, got away, but not without an 8-inch hit amidships from the Berwick. The latter also sustained damage (five casualties) but remained at sea. During the chase, the Berwick came upon the raider's supply ship, the freighter Baden, which set herself...