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...flurry of strikes which extended from the Pacific Northwest lumber industry to a toolmakers' plant in Rhode Island. Detroit itself was almost without bread as the result of a walkout of 1 ,000 bakery drivers. In nearby Saginaw, Mich., 2,800 workers were out in three Chevrolet plants, as a result of a fight over a no-smoking rule. Usually mild Charles Erwin Wilson, president of vast General Motors, said Detroit was approaching "industrial anarchy...
Skinny Wainwright's northern Luzon troops grudgingly began to back up. Ford, Chevrolet and G.M.C. trucks with the insignia of Japan rolled over the roads with General Homma's little men. Jap artillery hurled shells made of U.S. scrap. Jap planes, sent back after Singapore to finish the job, dropped fragmentation bombs made of the same stuff. Back of Wainwright's lines, base hospitals overflowed in gangrened misery...
...Saltonstall's style as governor is in keeping with the weathered plainness of his Yankee squire's face. He dispensed with the limousine and motorcycle escort his predecessors affected. Saltonstall is driven around in a two-door 1941 Chevrolet. The Governor rides up front, and Chauffeur Al Larrivee-not uniformed-is careful to keep a cache of chocolates and nuts for his boss in the glove compartment...
...squabbled with William S. Knudsen, took the quarrel to Ford for a decision. He won, but Knudsen left Ford shortly after for General Motors, where he took pleasant revenge by boosting Chevrolet sales past Ford...
...Chevrolet thus placed the immediate postwar demand at 16,000,000 cars, more than half of the prewar U.S. total. (Best prewar year: 4,795,000 cars, 1929.) Added to this will be a demand for 1,000,000 trucks from onetime truckers now forced to get along without them. To buy the cars and trucks, Chevrolet estimated that the well-heeled U.S. civilian will have $100,000,000,000 in savings. All this looked too good to be true, even to Chevie's top-optimist, Sales Manager William E. Holler. Said he: "It is perhaps wise...