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First U.S. sport event definitely war-blanked, at least for 1942, is Akron's national Soap Box Derby, and the tournaments that precede it in 120 U.S. cities. As embarrassed as if they had to tell them there is no Santa Claus, spokesmen for the Chevrolet company, which puts up the prizes (college scholarships, automobiles, wrist watches, etc.), broke the news to U.S. youngsters. Alleged reason: shortage of rubber and metals for scooter wheels...
William Batt's own SKF Industries controls the weather in its ball-bearing plants; Chevrolet has units in its machine-gun plant; Alabama's Rust Engineering has a 1,200-ton machine in its shell-loading plant...
...meeting changed Toledoans' minds. Head of the Washington delegation was Alex Taub, a former Chevrolet and Vauxhall (British G.M.) production engineer who-experting for OPM and SPAB-has been in the front lines of Washington groups fighting for more subcontracting. With Taub was a group of Army men headed by Major J. B. Maderis of the War Department's contracts distribution branch. Both Taub and Major Maderis gave the Toledo plan their blessing. Major Maderis committed the War Department to a policy of breaking up big orders into their smallest workable units to help spread them to cities...
...worth of 1,200-h.p. Pratt & Whitney radial engines, which Chevrolet and Buick hope to turn out at the rate of 2,000 a month...
...defense orders out in bigger hunks. Most of Detroit's munitions work so far has been supplementary to automobiles, done in small amounts and in new and separate plants. A really big spate of orders will force the conversion of present automaking plants, tools and man power. Chevrolet, which got a new $89,075,000 War Department contract for 1,000 Pratt & Whitney airplane engines a month, has already prepared to convert all of its automobile facilities in Buffalo and Tonawanda to their manufacture. Other orders: To Ford, $140,000,000 for 4,807 Pratt & Whitneys (in addition...