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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...cooled Allison. Packard bravely took the $125,000,000 British Rolls-Royce order that Henry Ford turned down. In November, Ford himself, who had earlier talked of 1,000 planes a day, took a $122,000,000 order for Pratt & Whitney Double Wasps. His engineers went to Hartford to find out how to make them...
...common back into the black. American Locomotive got $38,000,000 of Army orders, paid off $5 a share on preferred arrears. Even Pullman, ever faithful to the rails, took on some arms work. If defense traffic sends the roads into the equipment market next year, they will find a crowd ahead of them...
...also planned 6,076,000 new kilowatts for 1941 and 1942. The defense-conscious Federal Power Commission wanted them to up that by 1,500,000 kw. But the question was whether Westinghouse and General Electric, already swamped with defense business from a dozen other sources, could find enough skilled labor for such utility expansion...
...knew they would need extra kilowatts if Defense lasted, helped the Administration lobby it through Congress. Yet the year's end found even Aluminum, Co. behind on deliveries. Sadly it prepared an advertising campaign for the peacetime customers it wants to keep. The copy: "If you find it difficult at the moment to get all the aluminum you want when you want it, you will know that aluminum has gone off to defend your home and country...
...Wodehouse at the end of October. Wodehouse was wearing grey flannels, a tweed jacket. Asked if there was anything he wanted, P. G. said: "You know I write. Well, I find it difficult to write in a room with 60 other people. Could you arrange to get me a room alone?" The head of the prison said it could be arranged...