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Sausages and Airplanes. Without official reminders, Russian pilots know when it is U.S. planes they are flying, soldiers when it is U.S. shoes they wear, housewives when they use U.S. flour, sugar, lard and canned meats. New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker went to a Moscow "gastronom" where the grocer told him: "Of course, we have had the American goods here. Not a lot; I should say about 10% of the total over six months...
...Cross has distributed $63,000,000 worth of supplies in war-torn countries. To Great Britain have gone: hospital equipment, medical and surgical supplies, clothing for civilians bombed out of their homes; to Russia: bandages, anti-gangrene serum, insulin; to China: quinine, vitamin tablets, cracked wheat; to France: clothing, flour, chocolate...
...Invitation. General Mills got into war work half by choice, half by invitation. The first war orders came naturally-dried eggs for Lend-Lease, precooked breakfast food and vitamin preparations for the Army, oat flour for paratroopers' basic rations. Then General Mills thought of its small, efficient manufacturing division (food-packaging machinery, milling equipment), decided to get a few machine-made orders. The first job was making plungers for ammunition hoists. Then General Mills got a prism order, ran it off in record time by perfecting a device to grind 54 prisms simultaneously. With this greyhound start, the company...
Then & there General Mills planked down $1,000,000 for an abandoned two-block plant in Minneapolis, enough precision machinery to fill it and more headaches than the company had in 80 years of flour-milling. Sample: huge, 20-ft. high, 800-part Naval gunsights (parts must be machined to within 1/10,000 of an inch), which are perhaps the most complex type of Naval ordnance in production. General Mills upped its engineering-inventing staff from five to 100, increased ordnance employment from 50 to 1,500-and listened carefully to Navy advice...
...this fancy production record General Mills is modest, even refuses to say who gets the credit. But one man stands out-glad-handing Harry A. Bullis, who started to learn the flour business as a mill laborer, in 20 years was auditor, comptroller, secretary and executive vice-president. An amateur prophet, Orator Harry Bullis in May 1940 publicly predicted the U.S. would be at war sooner than expected, started pushing the world's largest flour miller into munitions work long before any mill-sized war contracts were in sight. Fortnight ago General Mills directors gave Harry Bullis a well...