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Munitions Minister Clarence Decatur Howe last week told Canada's House of Commons what the Government intends to do about workers in plants where war production is already being curtailed or canceled. Said...
...Army already has four longtime tractor-makers at work: Caterpillar, International Harvester, Allis-Chalmers and Cleveland Tractor. Besides that, two big plants have recently been switched from tank production: American Car & Foundry's at Berwick, Pa. and the new ordnance plant at Decatur, Ill., which got ready for production too late to be needed for tanks. Next month when they are due to be in full swing the tractor program will get a real shot...
Down the U.S. highway from Chicago moved a big Cadillac, bearing within it a big, black-browed, majestic man. The car pulled into Decatur, Ill., stopped. News men crowded around. What was John L. Lewis doing in this neck of the woods? And where had he got the gasoline? John Lewis brushed aside all questions: nothing at all --just going to Springfield -"for my annual visit with my mother." (Anna Louisa Lewis is 84.) This quote got into the papers. Decatur residents, remembering that John L. Lewis lived 750 miles away in Alexandria, Va., put in outraged calls to their...
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...Thin-skinned Minister of Munitions and Supply Clarence Decatur Howe "is an assembly line in pants...